Matter
Matter is a series of photographs that combine to form a compound portrait of contemporary India - a site of the rapid change brought on by globalisation and breakneck development - in search of a new self-image. Bharat Sikka explores this mercurial identity to reveal the tensions and ambiguities that characterise his rapidly transforming home country. Eschewing India's clichéd bright hues, Sikka works only in neutral shades of grey to expose the many facets of India's uneven visual topography to a de-sensualised, analytical gaze as all that is solid in an ancient culture now facing contemporary realities melts into air.
