Full moon on a dark night
Soumya Sankar-Bose | India
Soumya collaborated with his friends and members of the LGBTQ community, using their anxieties and memories to stage dream-like portraits that ask the viewer to consider the less-visible impacts of stigma and to imagine possible futures for queer youth in Indian society.
“My friends’ stories inspired me to work on narratives about their experiences being LGBTQ in India, and about their rights, dreams, and desires. In a society that prevents them from living a “normal” life, this work imagines a world in which freedom to live according to one’s own desires exists for all.”