After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Priyageetha Dia, Mesh: Prelude to Spectre System (2024), Vinyl print, Dimensions variable, Image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, photo by Marco Cappelletti.
After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Priyageetha Dia, Mesh: Prelude to Spectre System (2024), Vinyl print, Dimensions variable, Image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, photo by Marco Cappelletti.
After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Priyageetha Dia, Mesh: Prelude to Spectre System (2024), Vinyl print, Dimensions variable, Image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, photo by Marco Cappelletti.
Priyageetha Dia
Mesh: Prelude to Spectre System: Vinyl print
Further images
Spectre System examines plantation corporatism and labour migration on the Malay Peninsula. Formerly one of the British Empire’s most profitable colonies, Malaya relied on indentured workers from South India. A computer-generated protagonist reveals this terrain as a repository of memory and site of racialised dispossession. The animation extends into the physical space through a large vinyl print on the wall, Mesh: Prelude to Spectre System, in which elongated hands with gleaming skin seem to guide, embrace, or entrap viewers. Through this immersive image the artist strives to dissolve the boundaries between the body and space and reveal the environment we inhabit as a container of countless histories and handprints.
Commissioned by Han Nefkens Foundation for the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024
Title Design: Studio Darius Ou
Editor: Aki Hassan
Video Assistant: Brandon Tay
Exhibitions
Nurture Gaia, Bangkok Art Biennale 2024, curated by Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, 24 October 2024 – 25 February 2025, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Like Leaves, Curated by Anca Rujoiu, 20 September – 20 October 2024, Salonul de proiecte, RomaniaManifesta 15: Imagining Futures, 8 September – 24 November 2024, M|A|C Prison, Mataró, Catalonia, Spain
After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, curated by Ute Beta Bauer, 20 February – 24 May 2024, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia