Fotograf Zone – Dev Dhunsi

Tales They Don’t Tell You, 2024

Dev Dhunsi draws inspiration from Hindu texts in which time flows cyclically and the gods Mitra and Varuna embody the transformations of the moon. He interweaves these mythic images with his own search for a missing friend and with the river running through his native Trondheim, the river becoming a vessel for memory and tragedy. The installation combines video with textiles that shift and fade, echoing the current of water. Woven images suggest metaphors of transience and rebirth. Dhunsi creates a queer cosmology in which humans, gods, rivers, and stones share a single pulsating ecosystem. The work becomes a space where personal grief meets myth, and where water functions as a medium of memory, intimacy, and death. Tales They Don’t Tell You invites us to perceive the world as an interconnected web of beings and stories.

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TIES THAT BIND
October 4–12, 2025
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Venue · Holešovice Market, H11A / the Glass Hall (Skleněnka)
Bubenské nábř. 306, 170 00, Prague 7 Holešovice
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Opening Hours · 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Dev Dhunsi

is an artist based in Stockholm. Educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, his practice merges photography and textile production, viewed through queer and diasporic perspectives. Working with large-scale installations, mixed media, and experimental printing, Dhunsi explores identity, cultural encounters, and the role of photography in land politics and power structures. His work has been shown at Fotogalleriet (Oslo), MELK (Oslo), Mint abf (Stockholm), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), and the National Sports Museum (Stockholm).

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