Sangam Sharma (♀)
Independent artist and experimental filmmaker
EXPLORING EXPLORERS
This ongoing series wants to listen, learn and attempt to explore worlds differently
while also reflecting the past, oneself, the use of media and the images
Arctic expeditions have brought back to Europe.
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Photography was an important tool for explorers and for colonisers,
‘It has penetrated the most remote parts of the world. It helped to conquer,
gain territory and take possession of it’, Pia Arke* 2003
Icebergs revisited, 2024 (12x8cm)
Shaped plastic/duct tape on archival photos by the
German explorer/anthropologist Franz Boas from 1883
Cumberland Sound (sun+moon) revisited, 2024 (12x8cm)
Ngeative stencil and shaped tape on archival photos by the
German explorer/anthropologist Franz Boas from 1883