Suneil Sanzgiri (forthcoming)
2026 | Suneil Sanzgiri (forthcoming). A documentary video and sculptural installation that combines lidar scans, archival footage, interviews, and poetry by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem.
Suneil Sanzgiri (forthcoming)
January 20 - March 28, 2026
How do we live through and narrate moments of revolution and revolt, and how do we understand these experiences across time and distance? Using cutting edge imaging technologies to meditate on what it means to witness from afar, Suneil Sanzgiri explores the complexities of anticolonialism, nationalism, and diasporic identity. His work is inspired by his family’s legacy of resistance in Goa, India, an area under Portuguese occupation for over 450 years until its independence in 1961.
The exhibition is anchored by Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) the artist’s newest two-channel video and sculptural installation, that combines archival footage, animation, interviews, and a script written by poet Sham-e-Ali Nayeem. Nayeem writes from the perspective of an Indian Muslim American who draws from the languages of her life to compose a poetics of vulnerability and tenderness. The film tells the stories of the mutual struggle in India and Africa against Portuguese colonialism, highlighting the solidarity that developed between the two continents during the 1960s and 1970s. The artist will also show several newer works that are still in production.
Funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.