Bio
My current practice combines various image-making devices (digital & analogue) to explore emotional, psychological and phenomenological effects of new media and image production, in the digital age. Through my work I intend to bring forward the unthinking reliance on the solidity of the digital image and the technologies producing it. The visual experiments and installations I create act as an intervention in the viewers’ perceived reality and urge them to rethink the status of the digital photographic image and our perception of the world mediated by devices. The experience that the viewers have, is a exploration of the malleability of human perception and the devices’ ability to trigger and affect this plasticity.
I have come to believe that with today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable database that is updated in real time. We increasingly live in a world where images are involved in a multitude of processes that are hidden behind their appearances on screen and their so-called “interactivity”. The temporality of the digital image, is no more one of past(ness) but one of a radical present(ness): it is the 24 frames-per-second re-iteration of the video signal displayed on screen.
Group Exhibitions and Film Screenings 2024 Wink, Nudge, RISD Photography Class of 2024, Microscope Gallery, NY ‘The Bose Legacy’, Screened at Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai ‘The Bose Legacy’, Screened at G5A Warehouse, Mumbai Mixotricha: Death of the Author, Rebus Church, RI ‘The Bose Legacy’, Screened at D.P. Dhar Hall, Moscow ‘Between You & Me’, Screened at Goethe Institute, Mumbai, India ‘The Bose Legacy’, Screened at The Nehru Center, London RISD Graduate Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, RI Viewing Velocities, Ladd Observatory, RI Home/World, RISD Photography Graduate Biennale, Sol Koffler Gallery, RI The Unspeakable State, Red Eye Gallery, RI 2023 I Dreamed, I Dream, RISD Photography Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, RI ‘Between you and Me’, Screened at Steve Aronson Film Festival, Costa Rica Co-Curated Exhibition, “Field Work”, Red Eye Gallery, RI 2022 Im Nebel, Red Eye Gallery, RI 2019 Inland Stories, DRIK Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2018 Fishing for Sand, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Fellowships, Awards and Publications 2024 Artist Interview published in Bold Journey Magazine 2023 RISD Fellowship for 2023-2024 2022 RISD Fellowship for 2022-2023 Artlink Award, “Land of Plenty”, Switzerland 2021 Toto Awards for Photography, “Land of Plenty”, Bangalore, India 2020 Jali Kothi Magazine, Vol 2, “Land of Plenty”, Delhi, India 2019 Firstpost, “Land of Plenty”, Delhi, India Education 2024 MFA in Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA 2019 International Photography Program Semester, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal & Dhaka, Bangladesh 2015 Professional Diploma in Digital Video Production, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India
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