Monica Narula

Bio

Monica Narula is an artist with training in cinematography and filmmaking, and a background in English Literature. She formed Raqs Media Collective in 1992, along with Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The collective practices across several media, making installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica and curation. The members live and work in Delhi, India. In 2000, they co-founded the Sarai Programme at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi and ran it for a decade; they also edited the Sarai Reader series. They have shown extensively throughout the world, as well as curated numerous exhibitions. They were the artistic directors of the Yokohama Triennale 2020, Afterglow, where they developed sources around toxicity, care, and the luminosity of friendship.