#sarker protick

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Sarker Protick, Of River and Lost Lands, 2018

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Sarker Protick. Spaces of Separation. Bangladesh

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Sarker Protick

Queens Tomb

Elegy, 2016

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Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, Astres Noirs

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Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick | Astres Noirs

‘Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary in order to access invisible states of consciousness…

The work of art seeks to move us towards some kind of enlightenment. If, within the frame of western philosophies, such as Hegel’s assertion that we move towards the ‘spirit’, or the greatest idea of ourselves and in certain eastern philosophies invoking the sacred nature of light. Our ability to transcend immediate reality and move towards a concept of perfection, of this ‘idea’, is implicitly tied to the affections of art and light. This is perhaps no more so clear than the way we are enraptured by light as photographers – light is everything.

The origin of this is the Sun, to which we owe our existence. The celestial day provides the assurance of day and night and in doing so sets up this absolute certainty.. It is from the darkness of space that light emerges and this forms the existential duality we know as the abyss and the life that comes from it, in birth or in awakening. It is in praise of this that religious places seek to channel light: through the stained glass of a church or from the soft warmth of the candle flame, both elevate the devout towards the divine.

Photographic light often does exactly the opposite. These photons assist the medium in rooting us to the earth, terra firma that is, a way in which to know ourselves in relation to the objects around us, to secure us in-situ, to be cognizant of what we know we see and to so often prove ‘this was here’. Photographic realism’s grounding qualities are at times, at odds with arts transcendental powers, so much so that when we see the sublime in a photograph – the ultimate, mind-blowing sunset, a resplendent El Capitan in Yosemite or the NASA image of earthrise taken from the ascending Lunar Module, our souls are momentarily touched.

Text: Sunil Shah, Full Article on ASX

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LS | BOOKS

Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick - Astres Noirs

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Katrin Koenning & Sarker Protick, Astres Noirs

Chose Commune, 2017

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Astres noirs, Katrin Koenning & Sarker Protick, Chose commune, 2017