VORTEX by Naina Sen

In VORTEX filmmaker and video artist Naina Sen explores the tangible and intangible notions of being suspended between time and place. Experimenting with film, paint, oil and milk, this is a deeply personal work borne of the ebbs and flows of longing and displacement with being indefinitely separated from her family and her sense of home, through the pandemic. 

On a larger scale, the work considers notions of isolation, connection, disruption, displacement, identity and the ever changing porosity of human, social and political boundaries. 

This work was originally commissioned by Creative Accomplice as part of the NT Travelling Film Festival’s Water Tower Series. This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Festivals Australia program. 

About the artist

Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist.

Based on the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Naina has collaborated extensively with artists in remote Aboriginal communities in North-East Arnhem Land and the Central Desert in the Northern Territory for the last 12 years.

A practice built on long term cross-cultural and inter-cultural collaboration and storytelling, Naina works across documentary, installation and live projection and uses image making to explore gender, cultural identity and equity, place and memory, privileging First Nations and South Asian and South East Asian diasporic narratives.

Fed Square is co-presenting VORTEX with the Centre for Projection Art.

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