SUDIPTA MODI
BIO + PRACTICE
Sudipta Modi works with concepts which employs tenacious experimentation of theatricality and cinematic languages in art.
For her latest series ‘Immersive Adventures’ she created collages to explore manmade symmetry in the design cultures inspired from Greco-Roman Mosaics, Persian rug, Islamic monuments and Hindu/Buddhist mandalas. She uses found graphic-images and arranges them with her own ‘Bathing- Selfies’. Collages then construct a kaleidoscopic vision from the raw materials.
This series explores the relationship between the labour and capital of visual aesthetics on the digital surface which is inseparable thus remain as a upper layer of the fragile screen as the ozone layer of this planet.
This work further investigates the ozone layer of this planet which acts as a protection thus indispensable for human existence, reminds us our fragile presence in this cosmic world.
She received an MFA from Wimbledon College of Arts, University Arts London, studied for an MA in Theatre and Mass Communication from Rabindra Bharati University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Calcutta University, India.
She collaborated with theatre actors, fine artists, street musicians, and live-media performance with native islanders to save the coral reef; also worked on new-media installations. Her installations comprise kinetic laser light, voice-over scripts, drawings, photo images, videos, scripted performances, and painting which creates a multifarious narrative of time-lapse of cultural histories.
Sudipta was commissioned to design and brand multiple exhibitions and works as a lecture in Higher Education.