This is the exhibition guide to 'Sovereign Forest' by Amar Kanwar at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

'Focused on the exhaustive struggles over the resource-rich land of Odisha, in east India, and the issues concerning its ownership, The Sovereign Forest is a long-term commitment of Kanwar, in collaboration with independent media activist Sudhir Pattnaik, the Samadrusti media activist group, and designer and filmmaker Sherna Dastur. For over a decade, Kanwar has been filming the industrial interventions that have reshaped and permanently destroyed parts of Odisha's landscape-a battleground on issues of development and displacement since the 1990s. The resulting conflicts between local communities, the government, and corporations over the use of agricultural lands, forests, rivers and minerals, have led to an ongoing regime of violence that is unpredictable and often invisible.(...)The validity of poetry as evidence in a trial, the discourse on seeing, on compassion, justice and the determintation of the self, all come together as a constellation of films, texts, books, photographs, objects, seeds and processes.' - excerpt from Note from the Curators, p.4

Includes artist and collaborators' biographies and information on education and public programmes.