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Jesal Kapadia is a visual artist and co-editor of the arts for the journal, Rethinking Marxism. She moved to the United States seven years ago from Mumbai, where she worked as a graphic designer. She is a graduate of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in New York City and a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for Film and Video artists.
The video work of Kapadia revolves around the very experience of migration and its effects on the immigrant body. The hybridization, appropriation, and assimilation that occurs as a consequence, is what she represents and questions in her work.
Drawing from contemporary South Asian literature, postcolonial feminist theory, questions of nationalism and migration, as well as the uneven global history of modernist art, her intent is to create a rupture or potential for a break in the space that is occupied between the Indian and American cultures.