In This Land is Not Mine, Mother, Chathuri invokes and harnesses a cross disciplinary performative language of speculative reclamation. Working with myths and histories, Chaturi interrogates the subversive omnipresence of queer existence within rituals, spaces, and trajectories. They live within a space which has no borders, land, or belonging to call “theirs”.

I have been born as a regeneration of this land.

I was born as a mutant with many pains.

A Blasphemy.

Seeking for salvation.

Surging for belonging.

This land is not mine, Mother.

This land is not mine.

Images by Don Wong