Sarojini Lewis

Sarojini Lewis (India/Sur/Netherlands) has a background in Fine Art (MFA Fine Art Edinburgh University) with a specialization in archival photography, video art and book arts. She is currently working as a curator, researcher and artist. Her PhD in visual studies in JNU examined the indentured labour archive through a feminine contemporary lens.

Her projects reveal a preoccupation with history: of the landscape, the city, the environment and its user. She questions what unites men in particular their cultural diversity, what kinds of views are present. Recurring elements in her visual research are photographs of objects, people, migration and moments that reveal forgotten situations, and function as visual traces and fragments that create narratives that lead to new perspectives.

Participated in several projects:
Silence of the Sea A trace of Soerdie, Scheepvaartmuseum (2025) Disclosing Diaries Eye Museum (2025) Reciting Footsteps of a Female Migrant Soerdie, KB (2024) ‘Een Waakzame Blik’, Rijksmuseum(2023), ‘Onze Koloniale Erfenis’ Tropenmuseum (2022) en Kruispunt in Wereldmuseum (2020) Gallery Onkaf New Delhi (2020), Research Fellow Aarhus University (2019), ‘Traces’, Goethe Institut (2018-2015) Social Science Institut GB Pant in Allahabad (2018) Museo Pivo & Escravidão e Liberdade in Brazil and Museum for Contemporary Art & Tent in Rotterdam (2018)