Binu Bhaskar, born in 1972 in Kerala, India, and completed his degree in photography at Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia, in 1996. In his photography and videos, he marks a specific convergence between ecological politics and the poetics of the Sublime. His images address us in languages from beyond the familiar usage of the spoken and convey us into a world of fugitive sensations and half-grasped impressions, intimations...
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Binu Bhaskar, born in 1972 in Kerala, India, and completed his degree in photography at Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia, in 1996. In his photography and videos, he marks a specific convergence between ecological politics and the poetics of the Sublime. His images address us in languages from beyond the familiar usage of the spoken and convey us into a world of fugitive sensations and half-grasped impressions, intimations of belonging and dreams of the future that are implied rather than declared. In his photographic practice, Bhaskar does not identify, isolate and capture an object with his lens. Rather, he cultivates a field of meditation by shuttling between attentiveness and relaxation, intimacy and distance, familiarity and strangeness, pattern and chance. He demonstrates a classical Modernist concern by repeatedly addressing and exhausting a theme through the conceptual space afforded by a series. His works portray a subtle political statement about environmental degradation, vanishing habitats, and endangered livelihoods.
Bhaskar’s work has been featured in several international exhibitions, including ‘Witness’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1997; ‘Diksha’, Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1999; ‘Inner Vision’, The Guild, New York, 2007; ‘Di stance’, Bodhi Art, Travancore Palace,
Delhi, 2007; Christie’s Auction of South Asian Contemporary Art, New York, 2008; ‘Art Against Terrorism’, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata, 2009; ‘Human Race’, Mojo Gallery, Dubai, 2010 and Cowwarr Art space, Victoria, Australia, 2011; and ‘Inte’rieurnuit’, La Galerie Miniature,
Paris, 2011.
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Born
1972
Kerala
Education
1993-1996 Diploma in Illustrative Photography ( Fine Arts), Photography Studies College, Melbourne
1989-1992 Bachelors Degree in English literature, Calicut University, Keralam
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'The Human Race', The Mojo...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'The Human Race', The Mojo Gallery, Dubai
2008 ‘Di stance’ Bodhi Art, Travancore Palace, New Delhi
2001 ‘Prints and Posters’ Zyara, Dubai
2000 ‘Diksha’ Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
1999 ‘Diksha’ Toora Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
1998 ‘We Believe So We Are’ Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne
1997 ‘Sculpting Science’, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1997 ‘Sculpting Silence’, Dravidia Arts and Performance Gallery, Kerala
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'This Is Not That', Galerie Duboys, Paris
2009 'Intérieur nuit' La Galerie Miniature, Paris
2009 'Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again' Hirji Jehangir Gallery, Mumbai
2009 ‘The Descrumientos ’ Photoespana, Madrid
2009 ‘Art Against Terrorism', Emami Chisel Art, Kolkatta
2008 ‘Video Wednesday', The Espace Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Synonyms', The Guild, Mumbai
2008 ‘White Lies', Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 ‘Textures: Distance and Proximity', Bodhi Art, New Delhi
2008 ‘Landscapes', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Inner Vision', The Guild, New York
2008 ‘Millennium Turks', Trident Hilton, Gurgaon
2008 ‘Click ! Contemporary photography in India', Grosvenor Vadhera London; Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘Artequalated’, 1st Shilpapaddiam Biennale, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2005 ‘Artist Collective’, Gallery Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia
2004 ‘10 by 8', Gallery Foundry, Melbourne
1998 ‘Bodies', Island Gallery, Philip Island, Melbourne
1996 ‘Witness', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1995 ‘Out of Blue', St. Martins Gallery, Melbourne
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