On view June 1st to August 31, 2024
About the Exhibition
CURATED BY
Victoria Munro
Opening Reception
Saturday June 1st, 2024 during AAH Twilight Pride from 6-8:30pm
The artist’s museum debut in America, Supranav Dash studied at the NY School of Visual Arts and resides in India. In his home country, he cannot exhibit his important body of work for fear of arrest and reprisals. Eros and Its Discontents explores the lives and desires of individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community living in India. The people in the images are treading a psychological minefield, lives enmeshed in a crisscross of complexities arising out of a religious, conservative, and homophobic Indian culture that is quick to marginalize and discriminate.
This exhibition is supported by the New York State Council of the Arts, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Bay and Paul Foundations, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
About Supranav Dash
Supranav Dash currently shuttles between his hometown Kolkata, India and New York City. His work examines the themes of identity, gender, sexuality, displacement, and caste-class divide within the global socio-economic and political landscape.
Supranav is a 2016-17 Fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). He is an EAW XXVI Alumni and was selected for the Aperture Summer Open ’14 and American Photography 37 & 30. His recent exhibitions include the PhotoVogue 2022 Festival, Italy and The Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India; others include the PhotoVogue 2017 Festival, Milan, the Photoquai Biennial (PHQ5) at Musee du Quai Branly + Eiffel Tower, Paris; at the Noorderlicht Photo-Festival, Groningen and at Chobimela IX, Dhaka.
Dash has contributed and his projects have featured in publications including Time, The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, National Geographic, GEO, Wired, Huffington Post, Smithsonian, American Photo, Fast Company-Design, Lens Culture, SDN, Photographic Museum of Humanity, GUP magazine, Ojodepez magazine, DOC! magazine, PDN Edu, aCurator, Tasveer Journal, The Morning News, PetaPixel among others.
