We Will Have Always Seen More Than You Try to Hide
- When the Towel Drops, Vol 1 | Italy
- Sound Circles Taiwan
- Flocking Birds
- Adda Baazi
- Borders
- Living Together Series I & 2
- Still Movement
- Middle Life
Publications
©2025 Nupur Mathur
(Work in Progress)
Film stills, archival documents, film re-enactments, printed matter
A work in progress about collective memory and desire in India explored through the language of cinema and state censorship. The artist over several years has researched and collected thousands of written film censorship records that detail scenes that were deleted from films. The records from the 1920s onwards speak about the many shifting anxieties of those in power, from the British Empire to the nation building project of the Indian state.
In addition the work looks at the materiality of the archive and the modes, marks and negotiations of regulation. From hand annotated documents, calculations of excised films, typewritten records, to letters, lists and doodles the artist imagines the humans behind the machinery that decided the limits of acceptability.