Anindita Banerjee is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, curator, and arts manager. Of Indian heritage, she lives and works in Ballarat in regional Victoria, on the lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Her research interests include cultural otherness, authentic identity and the sense of home. The memories of ritualistic ceremonies and mark-making, and her reconstruction of them, inform her practice. Using gestural portrayals of hybrid rituals, she wonders where her place is as an immigrant to the unceded Indigenous lands of present-day Australia.
Finding Dada features a new body of work including photographic portraits of her male-identifying friends, cousins and close family members, including those from the Indigenous community, in whom she finds reflections of her Dada’s (grandfather’s) facial features.
Image: Image: Anindita Banerjee, For there is a moment when everything is possible, 2025, photograph. Image © and courtesy the artist.
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