Your name
Hari Sai Srikar
Place of birth
Visakhapatnam
Place where you live now
Mumbai
3 words to describe you
camera, canvas, curiosity
Why do you take pictures?
I believe that images allow me to reflect and question those aspects of experience that are lost when spoken about or written. The meaning gets muddled by the time it takes a cohesive form. Images are a multi-layered reflection/reaction to my direct experience of the world, as it hits me with its interlinked layers and suggestions all at once.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Instinctually I draw inspiration from my immediate surroundings and from my walks along the seashore close to my house.
Who are your influences?
Over time my practice has been influenced by artists from different media. Filmmakers like Juraj Herz, Jan Svankmajer, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Micheal Haneke; Painters like Per Kirkeby, Laszlo Maholy Nagy, Akbar Padamsee, Nasreen Mohamedi, Giogio Morandi; Writers and thinkers like Gaston Bachelard, Edmund Husserl and the Situationist International’s writings.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
The work that I do comes from experiences that directly affect my daily life, trying to reveal and capture an essence of the mundane that goes unnoticed in the face of these lived experiences.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I would be really glad if the work resonates with people who might have experienced something similar.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
I like to experiment with different media to keep myself engaged with the practice, borrowing from multiple media.
Is there anything you want to add?
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Three a family
(Project statement)

Are three people enough to make a family? Does one clock define the time for the three of us?

My parents and I spent more time living away from each other and our home, moving between different cities and countries for education and career goals.

The refurbishing of our family home triggered me to start photographing it. A conscious effort to align our lives as a family was set in motion. Moving forward, letting go and realigning to start over, rebuilding our family and home.

Walls had collected imprints of gestures of daily routine. Traces of daydreams left on wardrobes and corners like lost objects, that can only be found in memories.

As the walls and corners are realigned to ceiling and doors another cycle is set in motion, suggesting an opportunity to rebuild over that which remains after erosion- the primal self, the family, the home.

The images are a precursor, acting as a daydream of the future home.

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