Amnesia was produced during a residency at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, organized by the leader of the residency, Richard Baillargeon.

In 1994 I spent 10 months in South-East Asia, working as a freelance photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia. On my return to Canada, I was invited to the Flesh-Eating Technologies residency at the Banff Centre explored the impact of science and technology on the body, including bio-art and the merging of biological and technological systems. The residency focused on the image as ‘truth’ with the introduction of Photoshop, and how the technology is used in the context of contemporary visual arts practice.

This residency was my initiation into the world of new technology and the internet (the information highway was the term for the internet in 1994)

 Ten photo-based artists from the residency were invited to engage with the Adobe Photoshop 3.0 and produce an artwork that would be exhibited at Banff’s Walter Philips Gallery within three weeks.

Given the short time frame, I decided to access the lab only at night, and in my signature style, produce a series of images based on rephotographing projections of women in I met in villages in South-East Asia. The images were then printed on transparencies and encased in lightboxes. This work was a comment on new technologies inability to articulate the ‘reality’ and sometimes horror of parts of the developing world that has no running water, not to mention, electricity. The project did not use any Photoshop!

Amnesia was part of the group exhibition, The Transient Image, WALTER PHILIPS GALLERY, Banff Centre, Banff, AB (1994)

Musee du Quebec New Acquisitions Exhibit, Musee du Quebec, QC (1997)

Links to a Cold Climate: Masala Dry to Canada Chai Exhibit, Museum of Civilization, (India: The Living Arts), Hull, Quebec. Canada. Curated by : L. Sujir, S. Aziz and I. Nair