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)
Archival documents, participatory workshops, film clips, zines and posters
The artist has collected thousands of written descriptions of deleted scenes over the years from government archives in India from the 1920s onwards.
The project explores state-sponsored film censorship in relation to artistic freedom, desire, and resistance. The artist sees cinema and fiction in particular, as a way to imagine other worlds that allow us to play out desires amongst and with different publics. Titled ‘We Will Have Always Seen More Than You Try to Hide’, the work is rooted in archival research and uses cinematic language to invoke a liberatory imagination.
Using creative scriptwriting and storyboarding as a method to activate the archive as a site for speculation, the artist invites the public to respond to archival records by collaboratively scripting fictional scenes of collective resistance. Visualized through writing, storyboarding and drawing participants will make connections between censorship in the past to present day censorship.