Performance art works by Tania Sen exploring identity, gesture, ritual, and image-making through live action, photography, and text.


Wide-Eyed Special Characters debuts in Body Wash
FUTURE LANDSCAPES – VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024
Venice | February 16 – March 01, 2024

Essay →
Red, Brown and Blue

Right: Primal Colors
Top row extreme right: Red Brown and Blue, A performance on identity as something worn, signaled, and rehearsed.

Expressions of a visceral state, stripped of acquired emblems of validation, these pieces tell a personal story.  The trusted camera lens, my own body and the surroundings are ingredients of these works.  Impermanent and in a state of flux, these works catch a thought cast them into a visual vocabulary and move on to the next thought.  These works do not bear the burden of having to deliver a weighty subject matter for a high brow jury – simply a way to embrace a state, situation, place, people, politics without roots and obligations.