How can the distortion of language resist oppressive power structures? In what ways can depicting the body reveal and defy social strictures?

To find out, listen to Mithu Sen in conversation with SB15 curator Hoor Al Qasimi.

At Sharjah Biennial 15, Sen installed a mixed-media installation called I am from there. I am from here (2023), which takes the form of a poem, in a script that resembles Arabic calligraphic forms but is in fact entirely fictional. Made using a combination of synthetic hair as well as Sen’s own, the text also includes emojis — and seems to allude at once to the expectations, possibilities and limits of communication.