The Gallery UNDER THE MANGO TREE presents proudly its 50th exhibition by the acclaimed Indian Photographer, Amit Pasricha.
The exhibition Earth, Water, Air, Life. MANAGING HOPE surveys the past 20 or more years of Amit Pasricha´s compelling panoramic photography practice of India as a society, including a series of focused works on his heritage project India Lost and found. Moving between the visible surfaces and their inherent spirit, Pasrichas work asserts on seeing always the far reaching picture; so the panorama frames, covering the larger story. Returning time and again to stitching the passages of time within a frame, Amits practice involves both intellectual and emotional characteristics- intimate and perceptible, extending themselves away from mere documentation to a compositional story telling, his photographs can be both dramatic in scale and granular in focus. He uses his frames to restore his belief in environment and society.
In his magnificent photographs, the Indian panoramist Amit Pasricha documents the stunning, breathtaking and the rich diversity of people and places of India. His aesthetically impressive, large format photographic series -are the result of his travels across the subcontinent for years.
While the panorama positions everything in frame within the artist’s sustained experimentation with discourses of memorialization and endurance as established through his practice, it also emphasises a further address to the changing environment in the wake of the traumatic events of rising sea levels, destruction of the habitat, displacement.
Rendering the Gallery as a symbolic space for discussion, the exhibition comprises the artist´s address to the nature, human sensitive content and the environment created around it all.
India as one of the world’s largest, oldest, richest civilizations is known for its abundance of built heritage. With 35,000 to 7,00,000 structures lying unprotected, Amit draws focus to the project India Lost and Found through his large repository. On display are also some of these works to inspire collection, conversation and creating awareness about these monumental yet neglected relics, especially by mobilizing the youth. „One needs to redefine the meaning of our heritage, our environment and view it as a living eco-system that it once was.“- Amit Pasricha
Amit Pasricha´s practice, his panoramic frames are brought together with a consideration of managing hope, in an attempt to bring the complex, the ignored and the unobtrusive across multiple realities of the sub-continent.
Born in the family of Photographers, Pasricha is one of the world’s celebrated panoramic photographers. He is well published and believes that photography, as the most powerful modern language of today, must be used to draw attention to those aspects that stand neglected. He works and lives in New Delhi, India.
