Rajat
Sharma
RAJAT SHARMA - Visual Artist
'Rajat is a visual artist from Delhi, having finished his Masters in Media Arts and Practices in Europe. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Hong Kong.
Mostly dealing in disciplines of Video Art, Printmaking and Digital Collages, his works resonate between theory and praxis.
His films and projects locate harmony between digital and analogue workflows. The political implications of his art do not rest on the reproduction of the subject matter but alter the social (and historical) reality through new modes of representation. These are not centred around replicating reality as one experiences it in our everyday lives but expose the contradictions of reality, thus revealing that social reality is not natural but perhaps subject to change. This formal abstraction allows him to politicise the aspects of social life one considers unquestionable.
His research primarily focuses on decoloniality, anti imperialism and perversions to statist ideologies in mainstream films and televisions.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
"Ripple Effects", Goethe Institute, Hong Kong Arts Centre(HKSAR)
'never Brooklyn'
2024
"Marginalia", Current plans(HKSAR)
'never Brooklyn'
2023
"Floating Platforms", 1A Cattle Depot Hong Kong (HKSAR)
'march of the consumers'
2019
"Decolonise your Body", BPC New York (US)
'churchill's rabbits'
2019
STIFF GIF, SKC Rijeka (CR)
'loading europa' and 'how it feels'
2019
KAOS, Hiša Layer, Kranj (SL)
'the right last supper'
2018
chevereş, Casa de Culturã Timişoara (RO)
'oda-konsumerisma' triptych
2017
"Expoited Reality", Town Hall, Trowbridge (UK)
'genesis-mitosis'
2016
"Micro/Macro" SKC Rijeka (CR)
2016
"FOOTnotes", Telep Budapest (HU)
'collective memory'
2016
Mapping the local, Kisuzem, Budapest (HU)
'collective memory'
Selected Films
2020
Thou Art Thyself (animated documentary)
Animateka- Panorama programme- 2020
Fekk- 2021
Freiburger Filmforum- 2023
First Crossings- 2023
2018
Cold Meat (fiction)
Scrittura e Imagine Corto- 2018
Cinedays Festival of European Films-2018
Revija Studenskog Filma-2019
Kino Otok- 2019
Cherry Pop Film Festival- 2019
2018
Ignoranza Umana (documentary)
Kino Otok- 2018
Polenta Scena-2018
Education
2009-2013
Graduated B.Tech (Mechanical & Automation) GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi (IN)
2013-2015
M.F.Tech. NIFT, Delhi (IN)
2015-2018
Graduated MA (Media arts & Practices)
Akademija Umetnost, UNG (SL)
Magyar Képzómüvészeti egyetem (HU)
2021- present
PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University
Contact Me
er.rajat9[at]gmail(dot)com
+386-51810872, +447786899502, +85266753226