Amit Kalra is a video and sculpture artist whose work examines how belief systems are sustained through repetition, gesture and mediated imagery. His videos use slowed movement, found footage, and layered sound to expose the mechanics of persuasion and performance. His sculptural works extend this inquiry through industrial remnants and ritual materials. Kalra holds a graduate degree from the Royal College of Art and teaches in the MFA Communications Design program at Pratt Institute. He has exhibited internationally, held residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Pratt and has been featured on NTS Radio.

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100 dollar, 20 dollar, 5 dollar bill, 2025. Single-channel video, sound; 21 minutes and 54 seconds.

A clip of a famous American televangelist is extracted from a sermon that drifts from the Mayflower covenant to personal health and immortality. A single moment recounting whether to give a stranger $5, $20, or $100 is isolated, slowed, repeated and its audio manipulated. The sermon’s narrative dissolves, replaced by the affective weight of indecision. The man he refers to is now deceased; his widow sits in the audience, listening. What remains is  a suspended gesture of deliberation framed as moral theater.