DIGITAL WALL EXHIBITION: VORTEX

DIGITAL WALL EXHIBITION: VORTEX

The Digital Wall in the Bunjil Place foyer is a digital gallery space that exhibits video art and generative works. Over the 3 months we present the digital video work VORTEX by Naina Sen. 

Bunjil Place foyer
18 March – 18 June 2024

VORTEX  

Naina Sen, digital video, 2023

In Vortex filmmaker and video artist Naina Sen explores the tangible and intangible notions of being suspended between time and place. Experimenting with film, paint, oil and milk, this is a deeply personal work borne of the ebbs and flows of longing and displacement with being indefinitely separated from her family and her sense of home, through the pandemic.  

On a larger scale, the work considers notions of Isolation, connection, disruption, displacement, identity and the ever-changing porosity of human, social and political boundaries.

This work was originally commissioned by Creative Accomplice as part of the NT Travelling Film Festival's Water Tower Series. This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Festivals Australia program.

Naina Sen

Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist. Based on the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Naina has worked extensively with remote Aboriginal communities in North-East Arnhem Land and the Central Desert in the Northern Territory for the last 12 years. Working across documentary, installation and projection, Naina explores gender and cultural identity and equity, privileging First Nations and Southeast Asian narratives.

nainasen.com.au