In works such as Chingari Chumma (2000), Trans- (2004-5) and Women Like Us (2010), they focus on the social and biological constructs of gender. I Love My India (2003), filmed at a public recreational space in Bombay questions India’s democracy in the candid, apathetic, ignorant or informed interviewed responses to the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002. Their work both references and transcends otherness in “What are You?” (2006), highlighting the complexities of the highly marginalized Hijra (eunuch) community and proposes an egalitarian, poly-gendered society. Between the Waves (2012), a 5-channel video installation marks a turning point towards queer ecology in Shah’s practice. It tells the viewers a grand narrative, figuratively and metaphorically, as if they have created a new story of the origin of species that has been forgotten for a long time, or has been found from the distant future, something that seems out of place everywhere. Their works have shown widely at museums, galleries, and film festivals, including the Tate Modern (2006), Centre Pompidou (2011), and Documenta 13 (2012).

* (We have avoided using personal pronouns as an experiment and expression of retirement from gender conformity)