Sujata Setia

A Thousand Cuts (2023)

Sujata Setia is an Indian artist based in the UK. Her background in journalism informs a research-based, socially engaged practice that addresses silenced histories and cultural imperialism. A Thousand Cuts explores patterns of domestic abuse within South Asian culture, drawing on the metaphor of “Lingchi”- an ancient torture method - to reflect the soul-eroding nature of repeated harm. Survivors' portraits, printed on fragile A4 paper, are physically cut with a knife, symbolising their lived experiences. Created at a domestic scale with household materials, and tightly cropped to evoke claustrophobia, the work highlights the hidden, cyclical nature of violence within intimate, personal spaces.

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