Priyageetha Dia, The Sea is a Blue Memory, 2022. 3D animation video, 10:25 min, 4K H.264, stereo sound. Still from video. Collection of the Artist. Courtesy the Artist; Kochi Biennale Foundation © Priyageetha Dia Commissioned by Kochi-Muziris Biennale Supported by National Arts Council, Singapore
Priyageetha Dia works with time-based media and installation. Her artworks look into speculative narratives on Southeast Asian plantations, which she views as sites for recovering stories of resistance. Her research interests also include nonlinear narratives intersecting digital semiotics, migrant histories and our relationship with the non-human.Her recent exhibitions have been held at Singapore Art Museum (2023); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala (2022–2023); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2022); National Gallery Singapore (2020) and ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2019). Dia was an Artist-in-Residence at the NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR—Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023.
