Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke / United Kingdom & India / Mixed media installation, video, VR and Photography / 2024 / Danish Premiere / 0 min
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Blood Speaks cites the body as a space of political warfare and is a meditation on gender, tradition and oppression offering a means for viewers to address hidden modes of misogyny and patriarchy.
Combining photo-sculpture, textiles and virtual reality, the installation explores the social emotional and physical consequences of stigmatising womxn using the blood-body nexus as an archive of interiority, dignity and personhood, rather than spectacle. It is inspired by acts of resistance and South Asian futurism to create a critical space in which female subjects become active, political agents capable of reclaiming their agency and power.
About the artists
Poulomi Basu is an Indian neurodiverse artist known for her exploration of the interrelationship between systems of power and bodies through work that exists at the limits of art, technology and activism.
CJ Clarke is an award winning director, writer, author and producer. Crossing between narrative and experimental film, XR and installation, his work explores themes and stories at the intersection youth, identity and class.