Commissioned as part of The Box Plymouth's Reimagining the Film Archive programme, Sood's five-screen installation Shankha, was screened in The Box's Media Lab gallery from January-May 2025. It brought attention to the power of music in the lives of displaced individuals thanks to a poignant collaboration with British-Asian vocalist Satnam Galsian.  ​Shankha creates a narrative and collective memory between two different archival films which Sood has spliced, looped, and mirrored: a post-partition missionary documentary shot in various parts of India; and a 1972 news feature about the relocation of displaced Indians or ‘Ugandan Asians’ to resettlement camps in Heathfield, Devon.   Arun draws on the conch shell (Shankha) as an auspicious sonic vessel to explore interconnected and conflicting narratives of partition, displacement, class, and nation.  The work features spoken word and new musical compositions spliced with original archival audio, creating a sonic memory between different communities affected by partition and its consequential legacies.” Read more here. Arun  also be adapted a live performance of the work in response to Debjani Banerjee's exhibition Jalsaghar at Karst Gallery on April 4th. 

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