This anti-memorial examines the various traumatic events that occurred in the year 1919. It was the year after the first World War and many significant events worldwide, from the US to Australia, China to Mexico, and Russia to Europe.

An Archive of 1919: The Year of the Crack-up

This text-based artwork is an anti-memorial to loneliness and seeks to raise awareness about the increasing occurrence of and the harmful effects of loneliness, to the extent that the CDC has termed a public health epidemic.  Detailed description can be found here - https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/empty-time.

Empty Time: The Loneliness Epidemic

This anti-memorial explores the periodic eruptions of communal riots that seem to happen with uncanny regularity in India, since the Partition of 1947. The trace memories of the violence of the partition riots continue to drip into the present day through the recurring communal riots. More details are available here - https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/memory-leaks.

Memory Leaks: Drips and Traces

This anti-memorial reframes maps and cartography, as the skin of the nation. It examines the partitions of countries from the 20th century - India, Ireland,  Palestine, Cyprus,  Vietnam, Korea, Germany, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. More detailed description can be found here - https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/remembering-the-crooked-line.

Remembering the Crooked Line: The Skin of the Nation

This anti-memorial triangulates public monuments in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, through artistic interventions, and juxtaposes the counter-memories of the Partition of India in 1947, and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, as a memory triad. More detailed description at https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/broken-column.

Broken Column: The Monuments of Forgetting

This anti-memorial seeks to memorialize the Iraqi, Afghani, Syrian, Yemeni, and Pakistani lives lost in America's Wars on Terror post-9/11. Official records put this number at about a million. Unofficial records claim the number to be 37 times that. More details are at - https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/ungrievable-lives.

Ungrievable Lives: The Ghosts of 9/11

The forced migration of the Partition of India, displaced 20 million people in 1947, and 30 million people in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. This anti-memorial seeks to memorialize this mass displacement of people. Detailed description at https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/silent-waters.

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