Pinak Banik

I'm interested in what archives reveal and what they hide. I work as an artist, researcher, and archivist examining how museums, archives, and cultural artifacts are never neutral. They actively shape hierarchies and determine whose stories matter. Through sculpture, drawings, installations, and film, I trace how aesthetic forms and archival procedures have shaped the modern world and its citizens. I work across vernacular archives, libraries, and museum collections, investigating the entanglement of artistic production with questions of labor and subaltern histories; the stories of those excluded from official records. My practice moves transversally across disciplines and materials, asking how power operates through the organization and display of culture. By engaging with these contested sites, I attempt to make visible the hidden structures that determine how we understand the world and our place in it.