/Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
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Nicole Overbaugh
Saanvi Singh
Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
Time is a Flat Circle
video installation film
1 minute and 50 seconds
2024
Time is a Flat Circle is a video installation film written and directed by Nicole Overbaugh and Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, with the help of camera assistant Saanvi Singh. In an attempt to reconnect creatively after Overbaugh returned home, this film synthesizes our creative tendencies around the subjects of change and belonging. Our intention was to break away from the format of the narrative short films we are used to collaborating on, opting to lean into the way video installation films typically run on a loop in gallery settings. The furniture alludes to the familiar setting of a home that the protagonist eventually leaves, while the mysterious object they encounter is symbolic of the unknown. The protagonist is trapped in the perpetual purgatory of a dream they cannot escape, calling into question the notions of free will and impermanence in a cyclical world.
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Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
The Empty Chair
silver gelatin print
8″ x 10″
2023
Returning to my hometown of Curepipe in Mauritius after more than 4 years, I found myself confronting countless images and scenes that I had witnessed as a child through my matured eyes. The world didn’t quite shine with the same wonder and the colors that used pop with vibrance turned into scales of grey. This chair caught my eye immediately, connoting the presence of a person despite being empty. And that’s really what it felt like to come to this home of mine again.
Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
Clark University, 2024, Screen Studies
Memory Box
digital-inkjet print of 35mm film scans
20″ x 10″
2023
Memory Box is a part of a larger photo series titled Hometown Still Lives that visualizes my shifting perception of home as nomadic immigrant. This image allegorizes the experience of looking forward and backward simultaneously through two separate still photographs, fragmented by metal, glass and concrete. Parts of the landscape are either, obscured, reflected and refracted like my fuzzy childhood memories of Curepipe, the rainy and sleepy town at the heart island nation I left behind when at the age of nine.
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Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
Loss of Innocence
Inspired by: Henry George Todd, Study of Strawberries Matt Siber, McDonalds
35mm photograph printed on inkjet paper
8″ x 10″
2022
According to the Diamond Sutra, awakening is the first step in cutting through the illusion of reality on the path to nirvana. I came into adulthood in the US and only after having emigrated did I realize the capitalist constructs that had dictated my drive for material wealth and success that had originally fueled my desperate need to escape the small world I had begun to feel trapped by. Loss of Innocence portrays this adolescent awakening as I began to piece together the true weight of having left everything I had known behind and the indifference of a capitalist world.
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