Installation: An Impossible Address

EMPAC is pleased to present the American premiere of artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film An Impossible Address. Sanzgiri’s new work traces the fraught legacy of Sita Valles—a revolutionary of Goan origin who fought in the liberation struggle in Angola, where she was later disappeared by the state. Grappling visually, sonically, and narratively with the difficulty of querying Sita’s elusive history from the standpoint of a silent present, Sanzgiri’s film confronts the contradictions of solidarity and afterlives of collective trauma beyond the grave. How do we bear witness to revolution interrupted? An Impossible Address is styled as a letter that cannot be delivered–seizing on sounds and images that erupt from historical memory.

An Impossible Address builds on Sanzgiri’s extensive engagement with Afro-Asianism, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and cross-continental networks of resistance that bridged India and Angola in struggles for freedom from Portuguese rule. The exhibition of the project engages visually with the idea of the political stage. Alongside the central film, it breaks down the architecture of official performance into informal poetics, through selected image prints and textiles that nod to the nine distinct acts of Sanzgiri’s film. Working against archives’ gaps and lapses, An Impossible Address explores the potency of collective inheritance.

Program

• An Impossible Address (2025)
• Suneil Sanzgiri
• Runtime: 40min