Sonia Khurana Bird. Sonia Khurana Bird 2000 still from silent bw video He Chengyao Broadcast Exercise 2004 still from video Id always felt very much an outsider when it came to art by women which might involve an assertive sexuality. Kochi Muziris Biennale Archive.
In her video Bird 1999 a naked Khurana attempts to fly questioning and critiquing popular ideals of the female form in the process. I work with a discourse of power that is deliberately tangential. Sonia Khurana works primarily with lens- based media.
Filmed on Hi 8 processed in the early days of digital image production bird was made while studying in London but first shown in Delhi where its form and its transgressive use.
This post is a re-post. On the significance of feminist discourses for her work Khurana says. Sonia Khurana is perhaps the first artist in India to use her body in visual art practice to explore contexts and feelings. This post is a re-post.