In 2021, Naina created two large scale site specific public video works that were projected onto Darwin’s Water Towers as part of the NT Travelling Film Festival and the Darwin Street Art Festival.

MABBÚLARR

Senior textile artists JOY GARLBIN & JOSEPHINE JAMES (BÁBBARRA WOMEN’S CENTRE) collaborated with video artist Naina Sen to create a large scale public projection, projected on the Nightcliff Water Tower in Darwin as part of the Water Tower Series, commissioned by the NT Travelling Film Festival in 2021.

VORTEX

Vortex is a large scale public art participatory video work.

A site specific work work using film, paint and oil, it was projected onto Darwin’s Water Towers as part of the Darwin Street Art Festival and NT Travelling Film Festival.

An accompanying playlist of music was created with the work that audiences downloaded and listened to on personal headphones whilst experiencing the work on site

In this work Naina explores the intangible notions of being suspended between time and place.

Borne out of a feeling of acute anguish and sense of loss, this work is a deeply personal expression of the longing and displacement that ebbs and flows, with being indefinitely separated from her family and her sense of home, through the pandemic.