Amar Kanwar

Los testimonios relámpago (The fleeting testimonies) is a choreographic video installation in eight channels that addresses the troubled history of the Indian subcontinent since the Partition in 1947. The main topic here is sexual violence against women. This work brings back 60 years of social and political conflicts from individual perspectives and the impossibility of directly telling the experiences. Along the screenings, memories are supported by pictures and daily life objects, the silent witnesses of the traumatic experience. The body, especially the female body, becomes the main topic of the stories; it is the place where honor, hatred and humiliation are focused and applied, as well as the repository of dignity and a protest tool.