HARIT SRIKHAO
b. 1995, ThailandHarit Srikhao takes a courageous look at the inherent power relations embedded in photography itself. Of being captured and examined as a subject and being the subject performing the act of capturing, the dichotomy in front and behind the lens. His practice works 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.An affirmation and agency in navigating the dissociative state of his experiences.From photographic diaries of moments to contemplate to staged setups where fictions are interwoven with facts in immortalised bodies of myths that prop up national unity and delicate relations of those of differing class make way for an interpersonal look of intimate relations of bodies deemed deviating by society.All laid bare in his new body of work, 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, the tension of an eternity on view and the slipping past of the being in it.
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