How We remember
6 December 2019
Venue: Bambu Stage
CURATOR:
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati (Nepal)
How do we
remember
commemorate
pay tribute to
memorialize
loss and pain as individuals or a community?
What are the complexities of these kinds of memory making?
We remember to honor.
We remember to resist.
Who do we choose to remember?
Who do we choose to forget?
– NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, 2019
Biography
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
Nepal
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati is a photographer and curator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her work seeks to embrace themes such as change, identity, gender, and history within the context of ‘the New Nepal’. In 2007, she co-founded photo.circle, a photography platform that has facilitated learning, networking, publishing, and marketing opportunities for Nepali photographers. In 2010, she co-founded the Nepal Picture Library; a digital photo archive that strives to document a ground-up history of the Nepali people. And in 2015 she co-founded Photo Kathmandu, Nepal’s first international photography festival.
