Samika Prupas is a designer and artist based in
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada, primarily working across publication design, photography, and documentary videos. She moves between the digital and the analog, drawn to anything that lets her tell a story, make images, or work with her hands. Her practice often wanders through time, memories, archives, and dreamscapes, with a particular fascination for the fleeting qualities in everyday life.
She is in search of freelance work for publication/ephemera design or photography!
sprupas@gmail.com
@samikaprupas
Apparitions of Past Lives in Pursuit of May
PHOTO SERIES - April 2026
4 x 5 in
Ilford HP5 Plus 400
4 x 5 in
Dev & scans by me
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC
Time lays upon itself, creased and folded, allowing the familiar ghosts to be called upon in wake of my upcoming return to China.
This photo series came about as a way to process the uncanny feeling of something from the imaginary suddenly taking form. A dream turned into a photo series, then expanded into a book, providing an opportunity to return to the very woman I dreamt of. Time is a funny thing and sometimes it is completely incomprehensible.
I projected photos from my series Dead Mail into my space and onto my body, collapsing the divide between timelines. The projections became something almost tangible, but not quite. They haven't fully taken their three-dimensional form just yet, but I believe they will in May. This project is about the pursuit of memory and of a past that exists now and later.