Chinar Shah is an artist based in Bangalore. She is interested in documentary practices and uses her screen as a site to produce, circulate, and negotiate images. Shah is the founder of Home Sweet Home, an exhibition series and research platform focusing on self-organized, independent arts initiatives in India. She co-edited Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practices, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2018.
A Memorial for the New Economy proposes a publication as a memorial – one that is neither a grand proclamation nor a fixed monument, but instead a document dependent on systems of distribution, access and exchange.