An exhibition by ten lens based artists

addressing the question "WHY"

 

Anita Khemka & Imran Kokiloo, Atul Bhalla,

Boris Eldagsen & Tomasz Lazar, Charan Singh,

Donna J. Wan, Marinka Masséus,

Sharbendu De and Soumya Sankar Bose

 

© Marinka Masséus

Exhibition Curator: Sandeep Biswas

>> Each photographer's work may be viewed through the menu on the left.

This VASA exhibition invites a few lens based artists who are readily exploring their own conflicts and struggles through their personal questions addressing issues like gender, sexuality, environment, socio-politics, time, space and personal conflicts undefined.  

While we enjoy our freedom to question, an answer can expose some deepest protected secrets. Secrets that are only hidden to protect ourselves from a convenient, structured and regimental society where black and white is starkly demarcated leaving very little space for the grays. 

How deep can a question penetrate and why do we even question? What becomes the need for one to dig deeper to understand their world through a curiosity to generate an unique philosophy?

>> Each photographer's work may be viewed through the menu to the left.

© Boris Eldagsen and Tomasz Lazar

>> Each photographer's work may be viewed through the menu to the left.

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA, since 2008, has provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko and "Why??" curated by Sandeep Biswas.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.