On View

Leena Joshi

Prophet/Profit TV

Prophet/Profit TV is a variety show in two episodes. The series presents vignettes and portraits created within an imagined reality where the work exists as part of mainstream television media.

The episodes make use of text, performance, pop culture tropes, and non-linear narrative to serialize the artist’s understanding of “otherness” in American visual culture as well as engage the systemic cling to patriarchal and white supremacist structures within mainstream storytelling. By reimagining her experience of television, film, music video, and news media, Prophet/Profit TV renders an alternative critical and theoretic image universe.


About the Artist

Leena Joshi is a visual artist and writer born to Indian immigrants. Her writing and art practice explore the relationship between the changing self and its environment through negotiations of text, image, music, performance, and installation, with a focus on feminist, anti-colonial, and immigrant ideation. Recent work includes solo Vignettes exhibition Home Island Bye Bye, inclusion in Out of Sight, a review of Pacific Northwest art, and video work at the ICA London exhibition Zayn Malik Zindabad. Her writing and poetry has been published by La Norda Specialo, Pacifica Literary Review, Poor Claudia, and bluestockings magazine, among others.