'Matter' at Cardiff International Festival of Photography 2017
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"Matter" is part of the exhibition A Million Mutinies Later – India at 70, as part of Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography 2017, presented by Ffotogallery, in partnership with the Nazar Foundation/Delhi Photo Festival for UK-India Year of Culture 2017."Matter" features a series of images in a variety of formats that blend studio, street, landscape and portrait photography into a portrait of the "new" India, an ancient culture slamming up against contemporary realities. The site of rapid change brought on by globalisation and breakneck development, India is searching for its identity – trying on new ones, uneasily inhabiting traditional ones, and shedding old ones like masks. Sikka's images explore this mercurial identity from his own very personal perspective: urban, educated, middle-class and self-conscious. The palette of "Matter" is doggedly reductive; eschewing India's clichéd bright hues, Sikka works only in blacks, greys, whites and silvers. Sikka does not shy away from exposing every side of India's uneven visual topography. All beautifully composed, the photographs show moments of brooding and alienation, moments of sheer energy and moments of macabre allure. Sikka has revealed the ambiguities visible in his transforming home country before. The series' "Indian Men" and "Space In-Between" portrayed the faces of the men and the liminal landscapes of India with a similar aesthetic of uncertainty."Matter" as a project was shortlisted for the Mack First Book Award 2017.
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'Matter' at Cardiff International Festival of Photography 2017
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"Matter" is part of the exhibition A Million Mutinies Later – India at 70, as part of Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography 2017, presented by Ffotogallery, in partnership with the Nazar Foundation/Delhi Photo Festival for UK-India Year of Culture 2017."Matter" features a series of images in a variety of formats that blend studio, street, landscape and portrait photography into a portrait of the "new" India, an ancient culture slamming up against contemporary realities. The site of rapid change brought on by globalisation and breakneck development, India is searching for its identity – trying on new ones, uneasily inhabiting traditional ones, and shedding old ones like masks. Sikka's images explore this mercurial identity from his own very personal perspective: urban, educated, middle-class and self-conscious. The palette of "Matter" is doggedly reductive; eschewing India's clichéd bright hues, Sikka works only in blacks, greys, whites and silvers. Sikka does not shy away from exposing every side of India's uneven visual topography. All beautifully composed, the photographs show moments of brooding and alienation, moments of sheer energy and moments of macabre allure. Sikka has revealed the ambiguities visible in his transforming home country before. The series' "Indian Men" and "Space In-Between" portrayed the faces of the men and the liminal landscapes of India with a similar aesthetic of uncertainty."Matter" as a project was shortlisted for the Mack First Book Award 2017.
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