The question:
What can happen in a hotel room in 24 hours?

24 Hours.
7 Artists.
2 Rooms.
0 Sleep.

 

 

Sita Bhaumik

An award-winning photographer, writer and artist, Sita was raised in the Los Angeles area before moving to San Francisco to co-kick-start Free Media Group, dedicated to Bay Area arts and culture. Born with a severe case of island fever, she has lived and worked on three continents and one archipelago. Her work has rocked both LA and the Bay Area. Sita is currently an editor at Hyphen Magazine and her writing is also featured in the 2005 Apature festival. She holds a BA, Cum Laude, in Studio Art from Scripps College.

My work explores the duality intrinsic in the literal flatness of representation and its complexity. The themes of fragmentation, multiplicity, hybridity and pop culture in all its fizzyness pervade my work. Captured by a camera, embodied in an object, or connoted through a process, meaning is the substance of my art practice. I am fascinated by mechanical reproductions of skin such as pantyhose and makeup because they involve discussions of beauty and race in simple, mundane items.

It is through a conscious art practice that I explore the space between and create the spaces that are absent. Because the possibilities in representation not only foreshadows but also creates possibilities for existence.