Orijit Sen
Orijit Sen is an Indian graphic artist, designer, muralist, artivist, and social documentarian. His expansive body of work includes murals, public art, comics, and graphic design, and has been extensively published, exhibited and installed in India as well as internationally. His groundbreaking River of Stories (1994), considered the country’s first graphic novel, laid the foundation for India’s contemporary comics culture. Grounded in political insight and keen observation, Orijit’s art reimagines real events and lived experiences as fantastical, dreamlike narratives that provoke dialogue through wit and satirical humour.
Mapusa Mogi Mural Project
The ongoing Mapusa Mogi project headed by artist Orijit Sen is a tribute to one of Goa’s much loved towns.
A hundred-meters-long concrete retaining wall next to the St. Jerome’s Church in Mapusa is the site for my work about the past, present and possible futures of this market town. It takes forward my long and continuing association with Mapusa as an artist, teacher and documentarian.
The artwork is being created by a team that I have assembled. – bringing together young artists from Mapusa and elsewhere in Goa. The process of realising this project has involved a series of public consultations with citizens through meetings, workshops and on-ground research. The objective is to bring the potential power of public art to spark a process of public dialogue and urban renewal. The depiction of Mapusa here is map-like, but we extend the language of mapping into a polycentric, multi-dimensional and temporally layered form of storytelling — bringing together personal and oral histories with social documentation, environmental studies and even science fiction. Planned as a ceramic mural, it will be one of the largest such works in Goa.
