Anjalika Sagar

Anjalika Sagar
Born	1968 (age 56–57) London, England
Alma mater	SOAS University of London Middlesex University
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker, curator, video essayist and photographer
Known for	Co-founder with Kodwo Eshun of artist collective The Otolith Group

Anjalika Sagar (born 1968) is a British filmmaker, curator, video essayist and photographer, whose work has been shown at exhibitions internationally. In 2002, she co-founded with Kodwo Eshun the Turner Prize-nominated artists' collective The Otolith Group, based in London. ^[1]

Biography

Anjalika Sagar was born in London, England, in 1968. ^{[2] [3]} She earned BA degree in Social Anthropology and Hindi at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (1997) and an MA in Fine Art and Theory at Middlesex University (2004). ^[4]

In 2002, she co-founded with Kodwo Eshun The Otolith Group, a collective of interdisciplinary artists working internationally. ^{[5] [6]} As stated on the website of the International Curators Forum (ICF): "Approaching curation as an artistic practice of building intergenerational and cross-cultural platforms, the collective has been influential in critically introducing particular works of artists such as Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Anand Patwardhan, Etel Adnan, Black Audio Film Collective, Sue Clayton, Mani Kaul, Peter Watkins, and Chimurenga in the UK, US, Europe, and Lebanon." ^[7] In 2010, the Otolith Group was nominated for the Turner Prize for its project A Long Time Between Suns, a series of exhibitions. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Sagar's father was the artist Vidya Sagar (1938–2016), who collaborated with the Otolith group on a number of their films, and to whom the major work O Horizon is dedicated. ^{[11] [12]}

References

1. "Essay Film Festival: The Otolith Group". ICA. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
2. "Anjalika Sagar / The Otolith Group". dutchartinstitute.eu. ArtEZ University of the Arts (DAI). Retrieved 28 November 2025.
3. "Anjalikar Sagar". This Long Century. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
4. "The Otolith Group". Guggenheim. New York. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
5. The Otolith Group website.
6. "Turner Prize 2010 artists: The Otolith Group". Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
7. "Anjalika Sagar". internationalcuratorsforum.org. ICF. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
8. "Turner Prize 2010 artists: The Otolith Group". Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
9. "Turner Prize shortlist announced". BBC News. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
10. Itzkoff, Dave (4 May 2010). "Turner Prize Nominees Announced" . Retrieved 28 November 2025.
11. "The Otolith Group: O Horizon at Guggenheim Bilbao". Daily Art News. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
12. "O Horizon". Goldsmiths University of London . Retrieved 28 November 2025.

External links

• "A Flock of Keen-eyed and Far-Seeing Magpies | The Otolith Library-in-Residence", Ibraaz.
• "Let's Talk : On Asian Futurisms with Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, Heri Dono and Anita Dube", Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 31 August 2019, via YouTube.
• "nstant Ancestry: A conversation with The Otolith Group’s Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar", Maysles Documentary Center, via YouTube.
• Stephanie Bailey, "Living Worth Repeating—On the Xenogenesis of the Otolith Group", ArtPapers.