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Hysteria

Tejal Shah2007-09

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

Working along with Paris-based dancer and choreographer, Marion Perrin, Tejal began to develop the series of auto-­portraits presented here. While they are recreating some of images from the archive, they are probing, as they displace the subject physician and photographer with the artist playing all these roles.

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  • Title: Hysteria
  • Creator: Tejal Shah
  • Date Created: 2007-09
  • Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
  • Location Created: Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
  • Exhibition title: An unbearable lightness of being
  • Exhibition Description: A sense of dystopia, unease, maybe even giggly laughter, hysteria, melancholy, or even pictures of the unnoticed
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Tejal Shah (b.1979, Bhilai, India) currently lives and works between New Delhi and Goa. Working across diverse media such as video, photography, performance, sound, installation, and drawing, Shah positions her work within a feminist and queer framework
Chennai Photo Biennale

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