Pradeep Dalal

PRADEEP DALAL

Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. His work was recently included in the exhibitions "Stories in the Social Landscape" at ICP, "Strange Invitation" at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, CT, "Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora" in San Francisco and "Exchanging Glances" at Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, as well as: "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic" at Murray Guy and "Fifty Artists Photograph the Future" at Higher Pictures. Pradeep has also exhibited at the Herter Art Gallery in Amherst, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, TART in San Francisco, and Orchard and PS122 Gallery in New York. His photographic work is included in Blind Spot 43. Pradeep's essay "A Bifocal Frame of Reference" was included in Western Artists and India (Thames and Hudson, 2013). He is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, and holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a MArch from MIT. He is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and directs the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.

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Srirangam (QV 1 back), 2019
Archival inkjet print
12 x 18 inches

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Srirangam is located on an island in the middle of the Kaveri River. The ancient city was conceived as a cosmic mandala and comprises seven concentric wall enclosures, the outer three are shops and residential while the inner four are sacred temple precincts. I stumbled on a tiny garden outside the temple walls and photographed the cascading light at dusk, but could not capture the intense bodily sensation of sitting under trees filled with thousands of cacophonous birds in total pitch-black darkness.