“Postcards from the Interior”
An exploration of the sense of self and identity through six photographers’ personal bodies of work.
CURATED BY TANVI MISHRA
What allows us to define ourselves? What is our identity moulded by?
With a selection of six photographers, three from India and three from Singapore, this exhibition puts together a collection of photographs that explores the theme of self and identity through a visual medium. Assimilations made from the photographers’ personal bodies of work, these images bare open their lives for the viewer to peer into.
In these works, the photographers’ lives become inexplicably interlinked with those of their subjects, allowing themselves to become a part of the narrative. As a viewer, one becomes witness to the intimate and often intensely personal scenarios that play out in these photographs, those that would otherwise remain unseen or not have existed in the first place had it not been for the camera.
Here the definition of the self acquires a broader perspective. It extends to family, to relationships, to retracing one’s roots and memory.
On the one hand Ankit Goyal, Carrie Lam, Sean Lee and Akshay Mahajan turn the camera inward, photographing their life, their loves, their friends and family. Nguan, on the other, explores the macro identity of Singapore, through portraits of the everyday encounters in his hometown. Sumit Dayal surpasses this distinction and tells a story about Kashmir, his motherland, by way of photographing his family and working with acquired photographs.
The show was first conceived with the intention to also inspire greater cultural understanding between India and Singapore through such creative dialogues.
