"After Party" third solo exhibition of colour photographs by Dhruv Malhotra at Photoink Gallery, A-4 Green Avenue Street, Off Green Avenue, Church/Mall Road Vasant Kunj > 11am-7pm on 25th June to 14th August 2015

Photograph Dhruv Malhotra
Click the image above for bigger view
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Closed on Mondays and National Holidays) Add to Calendar 25/06/2015 11:00 14/08/2015 19:00 Asia/Kolkata "After Party" third solo exhibition of colour photographs by Dhruv Malhotra Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/06/after-party-third-solo-exhibition-of.html Photoink Gallery, A-4 Green Avenue Street, Off Green Avenue, Church/Mall Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free

Venue : Photoink Gallery, A-4 Green Avenue Street, Off Green Avenue, Church/Mall Road
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070
Venue Info : www.photoink.net | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)' &  'Chhatarpur(Yellow Line)'
Note : The gallery is permanently shifted from the earlier Jhandewalan location. 

Event Description : PHOTOINK is very pleased to present Dhruv Malhotra's third solo exhibition of colour photographs, After Party. This exhibition concludes the trilogy, After Dark, which also marks the end of Malhotras relationship with the night, spanning eight years. In the first series, Noida Soliloquy, Malhotra photographed the night with a burning curiosity to reveal what lay in its shadows – the city was an abstract world, an otherworld where he struggled to find himself. And he made luminous and disconcerting photographs of the desolate spaces he found. With the second series, Sleepers, his relationship with the night became one of familiarity and control – finally he was on firmer ground and no longer constrained by geography. With this freedom, he sometimes negotiated a safe space for himself amidst a sea of sleeping figures and at other times he transgressed boundaries, which put him at considerable risk.
In the third and final chapter of the trilogy, Malhotras experience of the night and is no longer marked by chance or the unknown. There is a noticeable sobriety in the After Party photographs where the night no longer dominates with its omnipresence or what it illuminates or hides in its dark shadows. Instead, Malhotra shifts the narrative and focuses on the temporality of spaces that get transformed between night and day. These are not spaces he stumbled upon but actively sought out. The itinerant photographer in him makes way for the premeditative photographer.
Dhruv Malhotra (b.1985) grew up in Jaipur. He majored in Economics but chose to pursue his life as a photographer. His works have focused on urban areas, cities at night and have engaged with issues of progress, modernity and the otherworldly.
His first solo exhibition, Noida Soliloquy was held at PHOTOINK in 2010. Photographs from his second series, Sleepers had a solo presentation at the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial in the exhibition, New Ways of Looking, curated by Martin Parr. Photographs from Sleepers were also included in the exhibition, The Matter Within at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2011) and a -person exhibition titled, Transitions: Urban Landscapes, curated by Deepak Ananth at The British School at Rome, Rome (2012). Sleepers was exhibited at PHOTOINK in 2013. Malhotras works were also inwwcluded in the exhibition, City Dwellers – Contemporary Art from India at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (2014) and at Off Festival Bratislava, curated by Zuzana Lapitkova, Bratislava, Slovakia (2014).
Malhotras works have been widely collected and also reside in the private collection of PIER 24, San Francisco, USA) and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India) and the Collection of Sanjay Parthasarathy and Malini Balakrishnan (Seattle, USA. He lives between Jaipur and New Delhi.

Related Events : PhotoExhibits | Exhibitions
"After Party" third solo exhibition of colour photographs by Dhruv Malhotra at Photoink Gallery, A-4 Green Avenue Street, Off Green Avenue, Church/Mall Road Vasant Kunj > 11am-7pm on 25th June to 14th August 2015 "After Party" third solo exhibition of colour photographs by Dhruv Malhotra at Photoink Gallery, A-4 Green Avenue Street, Off Green Avenue, Church/Mall Road Vasant Kunj > 11am-7pm on 25th June to 14th August 2015 Reviewed by DelhiEvents on Friday, August 14, 2015 Rating: 5

No comments:

Comment Below