
Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed
Sohrab Hura(Author)
Mack (Publisher)
Published on 30. August 2024
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-915743-75-6 (ISBN)
Description
Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed collects Sohrab Hura's kinetic illustrations made between 2022 and 2024 of everyday scenes of love, joy, family, and relationships. Renowned for his self-published photographic books, here Hura departs from the fixedness of the photographic form, using technicolour soft pastel to imbue his portraits, still lifes, and quotidian scenes with fluidity and to charge them with feeling. We see tender portraits of ailing family members, vivid sunsets and free-flowing bodies of water, mischievous pets and siblings, spectral figures meeting in unrefined landscapes, and surreal cremation rites. Portraits of isolation and illness are interleaved with recreated memes and convivial tableaux. The sardonic titles of the works collude with the viewer to poke fun at the drawings' subjects but also at the artist himself, creating an intimate viewing experience.
These works originated in a period in which the artist felt unable to connect with the permanency of photographs. Pivoting to drawing enabled him to capture the whimsy and ephemerality of everyday life within an increasingly polarised world. This playful tone is extended by the book's mix of impressionist and surrealist style, making for an unpredictable volume which experiments with how to evoke and immortalise feeling through art.
These works originated in a period in which the artist felt unable to connect with the permanency of photographs. Pivoting to drawing enabled him to capture the whimsy and ephemerality of everyday life within an increasingly polarised world. This playful tone is extended by the book's mix of impressionist and surrealist style, making for an unpredictable volume which experiments with how to evoke and immortalise feeling through art.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-915743-75-6 (9781915743756)
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Sohrab Hura (b. 1981) lives and works in New Delhi, India. He has self-published five books under the imprint Ugly Dog: Life is Elsewhere, A Proposition for Departure, Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!!, The Levee, and The Coast, with the latter winning the ParisPhoto-PhotoBook Award 2019 and its accompanying film premiering at Berlinale 2021. His short film Bittersweet (2019) was awarded the Principal Prize of the International Jury at the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020, and the short film The Lost Head & The Bird (2017) won the NRW Award at the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2018 and the Videonale Award of Fluentum Collection 2019. Select recent solo and group exhibitions include 'Ghosts in My Sleep' (Experimenter Colaba, 2024), 'Sohrab Hura: Half-Moving' (International Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022), and 'Making Waves: A New Generation of Indian Independent Filmmakers' (MoMA 2022). His work can be found in the permanent collections of MoMA, Ishara Art Foundation, KNMA, and Cincinnati Art Museum. He is a member of Magnum Photos and is represented by Experimenter.