Krishna Goswami : At Home in the World? Mediating Borders
Artist Statement: At Home in the World? Mediating Borders by Krishna Goswami reveals dance artist-scholar Suparna Banerjee’s life in the USA while stranded as all the international flights are suspended due to a sudden announcement of a COVID-19 lockdown. As Banerjee awaits repatriation to her home country India, an attempt to capture the subject’s inner turmoil, solitude, distress, phantasmagoria, insomnia, and fatigue is made by her friend, visual artist Krishna Goswami hailing from Kolkata, India. The title of the photo story not only questions the boundary of home in quarantined times, but also portrays a sense of dislocation of borders through the world of the internet. Parallel to this is the loneliness, dissociation, and anxieties that these two artists share in their confined homes, located in two different continents. Glancing close, the visuals actually narrate the story of all of us in these distressing times.
Krishna's Goswami is a photographer living in Kolkata, India. Professionally she works as an Assistant Teacher in a government- sponsored Higher Secondary school. For her, photography works as a therapy. Goswami's work was featured in the assignment "Life in Black and White" on the Your Shot National Geographic platform. Her story titled "From Darkness to Light" was previously published by the renowned Facebook group “World Photographic Forum” and two photo stories, "Life in Contrast" and "Hinterland" were published in 121clicks.com. In 2020, her photo was displayed in the exhibition of Women in the Street Group "Double Trouble”, organized by Head on Photo Festival, held in Sydney, Australia.