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Poulomi Basu is a neurodiverse artist known for her exploration of the interrelationship between systems of power and bodies through work that exists at the limits of art, creative technologies and activism. Basu’s work is defined by her transnational identity, working across interdisciplinary, interactive and experimental mediums. Whilst the centre of her works are often women of the Global South, like herself, her art and its histories are connected beyond their places of origin. Basu is a BAFTA Breakthrough UK 2024 recipient and was awarded 2023 ICP Museum Infinity Award for outstanding contribution to ​‘Contemporary Photography and New Media’. Her work ​‘Maya: The Birth of a Super Hero’ was nominated in competition at Festival de Cannes 2024. Her first photobook ​‘Centralia’ was published in 2020 and the book and exhibition won the 2020 Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award Jury Prize, and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize among many others. In 2020, Basu was awarded the prestigious Hood Medal by the Royal Photographic Society for her transmedia work Blood Speaks, which put menstrual rights on the international agenda and resulted in a major policy change. With current solo shows in Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and Focal Point Gallery of contemporary Art (UK), Basu is also Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow and was selected for Sundance New Frontiers Lab. Her work is held in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Museum of Modern Art Library – Special Collections (USA), Harvard Art Museums (USA), Autograph ABP (UK), Martin Parr Foundation (UK), Rencontres d’Arles (France), Olympic Museum (Switzerland), Lightwork (USA).