Roots & Worlds – Altered Landscapes: Earth, Man & Machine

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In this talk for Roots & Worlds, Bangladeshi photographer and visual artist Sarker will introduce his practice of image-making. Protick’s photographs frequently build the narrative around the trope of change;

momentary stillness, fleeting light, elemental origins of a place and a lost home. To make the decaying memory tangible, to define the disappearing history of a place without confining it, Protick’s often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance. The form and materiality of his works often morph into the physicality of time; its raptures and our inability to grasp or hold time, the process of image-making as the way to expand time, to make space for more subdued moments, or more hints of an embodied life. Protick will share some works recently exhibited at Nirobodhi – Till Time Stand Still (Shrine Empire, India, 2022), Of River and Lost Lands (Impact Doc, The Netherlands, 2019) as well as his projects in progress – Dhaka-1217 and Jirno / Ruins series (2016-ongoing).