Sridhar Balasubramaniyam
Coimbatore
Sridhar Balasubramaniyam is an Indian visual artist based in Chennai. His practice with photography and video explores the intricate relationship between body and land. Drawing on over 8 years of experience as a performance artist and photographer in theatres, Sridhar’s work reflects a deep engagement with Dravidian folk stories, performances, and tribal weddings.
His project, "Body and Land," has earned him the Alkazi Theatre Photography Grant (2020) and the Serendipity Photography Grant (2020). This work was exhibited at the Alkazi Theatre Archives in 2022 and featured at the National Portrait Gallery (2024).
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This body of photographs emerged organically from my many journeys across Tamilnadu, capturing moments that hid in the shadows or at the periphery of everyday life. Born out of my own restlessness and my nomadic travels, this work holds within it the part of me which is like a sand dune, where the sand is never still, its hypnotic dance constantly transforming itself.
Through these photographs, I’ve explored the delicate balance between stillness and motion, freedom and grounding. Each grain tells a story of transient beauty, a reminder that even in ceaseless movement, there is art, meaning and the essence of home.
It invites you to discover art in its impermanence and find harmony in the restless beauty of becoming.