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Vivan Sundaram

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Vivan Sundaram b.1943 is an artist, curator and editor. Sundaram works in many different media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video art, which deal with the personal, autobiographical, social and political. His works in the 1980s showed a tendency towards figurative representations, and dealt with problems of identity. His works engage with questions of memory and history. The digital works create new narratives from old family album photographs and quiz how we perceive fabricated landscapes. His latest installations and videos often refer to his artistic influences among them are Dadaism, as well as more recent Fluxus and Arte Povera.