Shiv Shankar

Growing up with caste violence, and having to leave my home in Jehanabad for Gaya, helped me develop my practice and works that directly come from my lived experiences. My practice looks at how our land holds memories of trauma and forced migration, often creating visual testimonies of histories that have been ignored. I use painting, installations, and performance to challenge official records, focusing on what is unspoken or erased, like in my sustained work on the 1997 Laxmanpur Bathe massacre. For me, art is a way of remembering and resisting bureaucratic forgetfulness.