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Rotis and Recollections

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Still from video, which shows the artist, a young British Indian woman, wearing a Punjabi salwar kameez and adjusting her chunni, which is a long stole or scarf-like piece of material. The background is a montage of sliced red onions frying in a pan, and digitally made spots. Subtitle text at the bottom of the frame reads "I feel like I've become Indian".

Rotis and Recollections

Date: 2020
Artist: Sara David (British)
Dimensions:
8 min 45 sec
Medium: Video
Object number: UAC 1000
DescriptionSara studied BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She says:

'Using video footage both recorded last year and recently, this piece humorously explored
my confusion and frustration in not knowing how to replicate the skills my mother has in
the kitchen, a subject I explore in many works. The eight-minute video features a
conversation between me and my best friend as we discuss our inability to fully accept
what we really had for dinner (Indian food) until recently.

Chaotic and over-saturated, painterly hands, desperately trying to learn and recollect
these gestures and movements of cooking, montage and interrupt with my mami
effortlessly preparing round rotis for her entire family. By the end it’s as if the digitally
rendered hands give up trying and accept their reality. The collision between my paintings
and video in this work is playful and yet antagonistic, there's a hybridity between the
mediums which I explore throughout my practice.'