Paribartana Mohanty

Paribartana Mohanty is a multimedia artist, primarily working with video, performance lectures and painting. His recent work explores and speculates on the new environment-disaster-landscapes emerging near the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha and studies the deep impacts of recurring cyclones, tsunamis and land erosion on marginal coastal communities, and nature and culture at large. Paribartana’s interest and research are in examining the role of new technologies of algorithmic networks, digitalization, data mining, access and surveillance in shaping public perception of the environment. 

His work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions and film festivals, including Rencontres de la photographie d'arles (2024), MACAN Museum, Indonesia; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2022); New Museum, New York (2022); Chennai Photo Biennale 3 (2022); 35th European Media Art Festival at Osnabrück (2022); 4th VH Award and EYEBEAM (2021); Goethe Institute, Mumbai (2022); Transart Triennale, London (2016); 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016); 59th BFI London Film Festival (2015), Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore (2015); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2013), among others.