POSSESSIVE AND POSSESSED
You want it, desire it.
You capture it, but you can’t have it.
Again and again.
When its appearance is hidden, somehow its latent power emerges.
You come to realise you have always been shadowed by it,
even manipulated by it.
Things do not reveal themselves to us, but rather they reveal us to ourselves, often in unexpected ways.
By covering an item, we remove the signifier for the object and thus the associated signified meaning. The specificity of the object is lost and the relationship with it is all that is left. Photography itself can be thought of as a form of possession. By blocking the gaze is something else revealed?
Inkjet prints, mounted and framed, variable dimensions
Rakesh Mohindra is an artist who was born and brought up in London. In his practice he uses photography, video, sound and performance to explore themes of transition, identity, desire and loss. His research interests centre around the disruption of the viewer’s relationship with the photographic image. His work has been exhibited in several group shows, including the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 at the National Portrait Gallery.
占有，被占有
你想要它，渴望它。
你捕获它，但无法拥有它。
一次再一次。
当事物的样貌被遮蔽，其潜在力量不知怎么却显现。
你才意识到你一直活在它的阴影下，
甚至任它摆布。
事物向我们所显露的并不是其本身，而是我们自己，且常以出乎预料的方式。
通过覆盖一个物体，我们移除了它的指向作用，也就移除了其所相应的意义。不再有具体的物体，剩下的只有我们与物体的关系。摄影本身可以被看作为一种占有。通过阻碍我们的凝视，是否有其他东西从中显露？
Rakesh Mohindra是一名出生并生活在伦敦的艺术家。他的实践运用摄影，录像，声音及行为表演去探索转变，身份，欲望和失去的议题。他的研究兴趣围绕对观者与摄影图像关系的干扰。他的作品曾多次展出，包括在国家肖像美术馆的2015年Taylor Wessing摄影肖像奖展览。
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