artist

HARIT SRIKHAO

Harit Srikhao is a visual artist looking at inherent relations in the composition of image making. His practice focuses on the dilemma of photography, of being a subject and of being the subject performing the act of capturing – the dichotomy in front and behind the lens. Working through interconnected themes from political traditions to aesthetics of power, all struck through with an intense effort to come to understand his personal experience of being a subject and object, of surrendering the autonomy of one’s image and the struggle in reclaiming it, and giving it a body.

Photography functions as a device to address the delay in understanding, in coming to terms and examining the conditions of his position within the world. His practice spans from photographic diaries of moments to staged setups where fictions are interwoven with facts. They dissect immortalized bodies of myths in delicate relations of those in differing classes, all to make way for an interpersonal look of intimate relations of bodies deemed deviating by society. Recently expanding his practice into moving images, Imago is a confrontation with the medium of photography and its attempt at encapsulating the being of a person, one’s complicated relation with the image of oneself and the grasps of the tangible body.