Mohini Chandra

Lives and works in Totnes, UK

Artist statement

Mohini Chandra’s multimedia work on the international flows of people and culture in our globalised world, has exhibited in venues such as the Royal Academy (London),the Asia Society and Museum (New York), the Queens Museum (New York), the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne) the First Johannesburg Biennale, Photo Kathmandu, and the Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Recent projects made in the Pacific region and in India have been exhibited at the Third Oceanic Performance Biennial (Auckland) the Biennial Focus Festival of Photography (Mumbai), the Houston FotoFest Biennial, as well as in the Chennai Photo Biennale. Mohini has lived and worked in Australia, the Pacific, India and the UK. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art (London), Mohini has received funding and awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Autograph ABP, the Arts Council England, the British Council, the Australia Council for the Arts and Asialink. Her work has also recently been recognised by the Hundred Heroines-Women in Photography Award and a nomination for the Jarman Film Award (2021). Mohini Chandra identifies as part of the Fiji Indian diaspora, whose ancestors were taken from India to work as indentured labourers in the Pacific from the late 1800’s. Much of her work explores both archival and vernacular representations of this experience through photography and other forms of narrative...

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