'Where the Birds Never Sing (2017- 2020) is a body of work on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bengali lower caste refugees from Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, India and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease.[...]Bose, over the last few years, has been researching and re-enacting memories of the survivors in specific locations, as there is almost no written record of the incident. Through the intricate weaving of facts and fiction of existing oral histories of the real survivors, he brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this problematic history that is facing slow erasure from collective memory.' — from the artist's website
Onsite
English
2020
140
9781513664156
1
artist monograph,
photobook
Soumya Sankar Bose: Where the Birds Never Sing
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