In ‘A Thousand Cuts,’ Sujata Setia’s Powerful Portraits Expose Domestic Abuse

For centuries in southeast Asia, lingchi was employed as a particularly brutal form of torture in which a knife was used to methodically remove parts of the body over long periods. Translated as “death by a thousand cuts,” the ancient practice provides the metaphorical groundwork for London-based Indian artist Sujata Setia’s stirring series A Thousand Cuts.

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