Synaptic Visualizations: Reading ‘the Global’ in and through the Work of Sutapa Biswas

This essay focuses on the work of British contemporary artist Sutapa Biswas (born 1962). Over past forty years, has engaged, through film, photography and other media, with complex structures aesthetics global, in relation to her own migratory experience. Having come Britain from West Bengal as a child, artist's return 1980s place birth precipitated series works that deal complexity homeland identity, memory desire, while also challenging Eurocentric vision world. Through an analysis two film works, Kali (1984–85) Birdsong (2004), by focusing Biswas's conceptualization synaptic, this addresses way which challenges idealized notions post-colonial unity, pointing possibilities seeing knowing across different vantage points.