Sen says digital technology is a labyrinth that simultaneously conditions human society into a certain homogeneity even as it can isolate people.
This 5-painting series called “Digi-Labyrinth” comprises another expression of Sen’s Gesturism art. Whereas digi-tech has undoubtedly intervened to change people and social behaviour in different ways, Sen believes it has also usurped intellect by taking over the basics of the human thought process.
When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.
