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The Golden Feral Trail

Archana Hande2013-15

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

School students admiring the work of Archana Hande showcased at the Centenanry Hall at the Government Museum during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. The Golden Feral Trail is Archana's journey that records local and oral histories to trace the relationship between South Asia and Western Australia. The story of trade and migration between the two regions from the early 1800s until the present can essentially be mapped from the Gold rush to Ghost towns of today. This trail has taken her to cemeteries, abandoned graves, and deserted mining pits, ghost towns, institutional archives and personal photo albums. The Feral Trail, as she calls it, as she sees it, remains beneath the red earth. This Western Australian horizon tells a story of a nomadic establishment of economy but also of a loss, an erasure.

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  • Title: The Golden Feral Trail
  • Creator: Archana Hande
  • Date Created: 2013-15
  • Location: Government Museum, Egmore, Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
  • Exhibition title: Why look at animals ?
  • Exhibition Description: Where camels, giraffes, elephants and innumerable creatures invade our world
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Archana Hande holds B.F.A & M.F.A in print making, from Viswa-bharati, Santiniketan, (1986-1991) and M.S University, Baroda, India (1991-1993). She has been awarded Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Awards, Residency in Glasgow school of arts in the year 2000, Research Residency, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland 2010. She lives and works in Bangalore and Bomaby, India
Chennai Photo Biennale

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