

Arijit Bhattacharyya
My artistic practice spans installations, drawings, paintings, murals, textiles, videos, performances, cooking, and publications, serving as a platform to investigate historical narratives and legacies of power and imagine possible futures.
In the past years, I have been developing a speculative temporality of plant-human socioecological evolution, where the vegetal agency becomes a revolutionary protagonist that counters populist imaginations of technocracies and apocalypses by forging hybrid futures through interspecies reproduction. I understand these projects as unfolding chapters of a novel imagined, constructed, and performed across a non-linear timeline.
Concurrently, I have also found myself investigating and engaging with audiovisual archives of violence executed by positions of power spanning geographies. I am working with them through methodologies of visual and auditory means that place me as a witness who will testify either now or in a moment yet to come.
In 2025, I am actively exploring how these two trajectories might converge—cultivating a practice that interweaves speculative ecologies with historical testimony.