Sonia Khurana

Born in 1968 in Saharanpur (India)
Lives and works in New Delhi (India)

Sonia Khurana works with lens based media, moving image, performance, text, drawing, sound, and installation. Often using the performative mode, she structures the self through states of strangeness, alienation, displacement, interiority and embodiment. Placing the body in an oblique relation to diffused feminist aesthetics of the counter-spectacle and performative resistance, she strives to engage with the constant negotiations between body and language, the self and the world. Through these deliberately poetic intimations, she tries to persistently explore and re-define the space of the political. Sonia Khurana studied art in London at the Royal College of Art, where she completed her Masters in 1999, and earlier in Delhi, at the Delhi College of Art. In 2002, Sonia did a two-year Residency Programme for practice-based research at the Rijksakademie VBK in Amsterdam. Her works have been shown and collected internationally. Group shows include: Exhibitions elles@Centre Pompidou (2009/2010),  Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum (2007), the Aichi Triennale [2010], the Gwangju Biennale [2008], West Heavens [2010], Sculpture Motion, Wanas Konst, Sweden [May to Nov 2017] Her solo expositions, include: “Lone Women Don’t Lie,” (2000), “Many Lives” (2006), “Still/Moving Image (2007), “Living in the Round,” (2009), “Oneiric House: Round About Midnight” (2014) and most recently, “Fold/Unfold” (2017).

Sonia Khurana writes of her video film installation on view at KB17: “The World is a series of images and text, poetic meanderings on the theme of home, homelessness and living between places; my own poetic meanderings on the theme often resonate with other, existing thoughts and texts and experiences, most of all those of my grandmother’s.”