Sohrab Hura | Ghosts in My Sleep: Experimenter Colaba

Experimenter presents Ghosts in My Sleep, Sohrab Hura’s (b.1981 lives and works in New Delhi, India)  solo at Experimenter – Colaba during Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024. The exhibition takes its title from a new body of work comprising works on paper made with gouache. Alongside these small paintings, the ongoing pastel drawings from Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed, the short film Bittersweet as well as other image and sound notations dispersed across the gallery underscore Hura’s ongoing engagement with the ‘image’. While photography marked his beginnings and has been integral to the core of his practice, subsequent shifts towards experimentation with the moving image and sound and now drawing and painting are simply Hura continuing to engage with a constantly shifting image world. Perhaps this shift to ‘trying to work more with his hands’ is also an existential attempt at finding something ‘more real’ at a time when the screen has become the primary interface to determine what is real or not. These new ‘broken images’ that he feels he trusts more and more, carry with them undercurrents similar to his early photographic works that had a tendency to reflect upon every day ordinariness of love, joy, relationships and the familial. His immediate space also includes animals while the significance of title texts, tempering the tone of the images, creates a parallel between this body of work with the format of a photo book.