Sutapa Biswas A Space Between Homes

We all have a favourite childhood memory, the story we only tell when we want to remember a priceless moment; or an embarrassing tale we want everyone to forget yet will always come up in family gatherings. The stories of our past are an accumulation of how we see the present world today. But what happens when the memories we hold are the brutal consequences of a colonial aftermath that we didn’t ask for; our experiences are no longer just ours to keep and become a collective account for the generations to come. In Lumen, Sutapa Biswas takes on the inherent duty to narrate, share and acknowledge those stories as a forgotten page for the history books.

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