Mum, Grandpa, and Lear (2012), Single-Channel Video, Duration- 5 min 35 sec
A sensitive, authentic exploration of the human condition, focusing on the artist’s mother’s emotional recollection of Shakespeare’s King Lear, as she mourns the recent decline and death of her own father. Re-filmed projections on scraps of paper introduce a cast of characters and scenes culled from Kansara’s archive of familial recordings.
Gautam Kansara 