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All materials published by Kuch Hai — the weekly art pieces, the curations of artist profiles, and the themed catalogues — are hand-picked by Divya Prabhakar. None of the content is generated by AI.

Reincarnations:: Ghosts of a South Asian Past (Sam Madhu)

The series was inspired by old colonial-era photographs of Tamil women across India and Sri Lanka.

Sam Madhu, Reincarnations:: Ghosts of a South Asian Past, 2024, CGI + digital, exhibited on LED screens

Snippet of her process can be found here

Madhu is from Chennai and works and lives between Berlin + India

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Chennai · Tamil Nadu

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