Sohrab Hura
2021The Coast
Sohrab Hura
The Coast blurs the line between documentary and fiction bringing into question whose truth is being told, who sets the narrative – and for what purpose? Power is firmly in the corner of the one who makes the narratives today. Using the coastline as a metaphor, the photographs veer from violent scenes to the everyday absurdity of life – the viewer never sure of what is real and what is not. The character of an ‘idiot photographer’ also makes an appearance in self reference as Hura is all too aware of his own role in the violence and manipulation of image making today.
The Coast
Bittersweet
Sohrab Hura
Sohrab Hura focuses on intimate family life, particularly the relationship between his mother who was diagnosed with acute Paranoid Schizophrenia and her dog, Elsa. What began as a way to escape his family situation turned into a method of confronting the realities at home. Photographed and filmed over a period of ten years, it is a search for meaning and closure with Hura questioning and discovering the banalities of everyday life at home.
Bittersweet
The Lost Head and the Bird: Act 1 of 12
Sohrab Hura
A disorientating and absurd world on the fringes of contemporary India where the boundaries between fact and fiction blur, and the undercurrents of caste, sexual, religious, and political violence lurk beneath the surface, erupting in ever more frequent outbursts.
The Lost Head and the Bird
