"Fieldnotes from the Brahmaputra" - An Online Talk by Devadeep Gupta

As an initiation for Satellite Exhibitions 2023, we are excited to have artist Devadeep Gupta to host a talk for us on photographic approaches on social issues. He will be sharing his perspectives and interpretation on photography as a tool to address changes and incidents in society, as well as how he has shaped his documentary and image-making practice through various challenges and reflections.

Date: 5th July, 2022 (Tue)

Time: 7pm-8:30pm (HKT)

Language: English

Platform: Online by Zoom

About Speaker

Devadeep Gupta is a visual artist and filmmaker based out of Guwahati, Assam in India. His practice lies in the mutuality of lens-based media, installations, collaborative performances knit together through concurrent conceptual narratives. Devadeep graduated with a Master’s degree in Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University, Germany. Since his earliest engagements in academic and professional spaces as a Visual Practitioner, he has been drawn towards work that engages communities through values of transparency and empathy. Through his practice, he reflects his position on the socio-cultural landscapes of his work. Apart from his personal art-making, he directs his efforts towards creating an avenue in the North-East India through Northeast Lightbox (NELB, a collective co-founded by him and Hrishikesh Chowdhury, a social worker from Assam), that can facilitate more accessibility towards visual art, while cultivating an inclusive space of dialogue and exchange for art-makers and practitioners along with generating new audiences.

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