Debmalya Roy Choudhuri
Fragments of the Dying Man is a diary of fragility, loss, and desire: a response and reaction to the suicide of a lover, my own confrontation with tuberculosis as a young adult, and of being queer. It confronts the ambiguity and anonymity of our identity. In its experience with the gestures of the body, desire and space, this journey strives to look beyond the presupposed zones of identity and representation, to think of the anonymous and uncertain forms of “sociality” — death, disappearance and the fragmentary passage of people and places.
Debmalya Roy Choudhuri
Deb Choudhuri (b. 1992) is an artist from India, currently based in New York.
Deb deals with the “queerness” of desire, love, body and space through personal narratives. They see photography as an interface with the world, a way to confront it, a way to desire and define their own position. Deb’s practice has its roots in the need to take distance from the chaos of the surroundings, and get intimate, physically and emotionally, in places where the hunt is more lyrical, delicate, sometimes strong. Over time, the creative practice has naturally flowed from finding a sense of belonging in one place, to connecting to people by establishing closeness to one person, at a time. This way, the author tries to understand the way people express desire and love and uses photography to converse with them. They use these experiences, and conversations with strangers and friends to build the complex play of what it means to be here, to understand every struggle, and to live in a broader sociopolitical realm of existence. The lines between the subject and the photographer are fluid in the work. These dual conversations open new perspectives on the relationship between the self and the other.