Priyageetha Dia's research delves into the complexities of identity politics and spatial relations of the Tamizh diasporic experience in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region.
Priyageetha Dia works with time-based media and installation. Her practice is braided between the speculation of the tropics and the ancestral intelligence within the machine. Through archival and field research, she engages in nonlinearity as a practice of refusal against dominant narratives. Using computed-generated imagery (CGI), performance and archival materials, Dia’s videos and installations conjure sensorial environments of speculative narratives that urges deeper contemplation and rethinking around labour, colonial histories and identity.
Priyageetha Dia’s works has been featured in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation (as part of La Biennale di Venezia 2024); Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Saudi Arabia; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, Kerala. She will be participating in the forthcoming 4th Bangkok Art Biennale (2025); and MANIFESTA 15, Barcelona (2024). Recent exhibitions include Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation (2024); NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2024); Frieze Seoul (2023); Singapore Art Museum (2023); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2022); Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2022); National Gallery Singapore (2020); and Art Science Museum, Singapore (2019).
Dia was an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR—Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands (2023) and Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2024).