Prayer Bell from India: Priya Kambli

Priya is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photographic media and installation. For the past two decades Kambli has worked with a fragmentary archive, her family inheritance brought with her from India to the United States when she was 18 years old. This inheritance included family photographs, heirlooms, and documents packed in a suitcase that weighed 45 kilograms. In her work she has revisited, rephotographed, and recontextualized her archive to create personal work addressing her migrant narrative and feminist practice. She participated in Amaanat with one of those objects- a bell used in her mother’s alter.