JATIN GULATI India, b. 1992
"The Space118 Fine Arts Grant provided me with a framework through mentorship sessions and mock reviews. Beyond the financial support for my ongoing project, it created space for meaningful discussions at various stages, helping me refine my thoughts and deepen my engagement with my subjects."
Jatin Gulati (b. 1992, Haryana, India) studied B.Arch., Murthal University, Haryana, 2015 and graduated in photography, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka, 2020. His recent curation includes this beautiful place, CISA, Khoj International Artist Residency, 2023. Jatin works at the intersection of photography and drawing. His interest lies in speculations around human and non-human histories constructing alternative narratives of the present. He experiments with formats such as archives, documents, textual records, maps and various representations of geography, imagining scenarios that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction.
Jatin Gulati lives and works across Delhi and Bangalore.
Mentor:
Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective)
Proposed Project:
Effigy of Man
Project Over view:
My grandfather’s photographs continue to be seen as images of the revered and often
feared patriarch even a decade after his death. A strict, short-tempered, closed and an
orthodox man, his persona was shaped by the partition of British India in 1947, when at a
young age, he was displaced from Multan (now in Pakistan) to Haryana (India).
Through studio portraiture and collage, I engage with his images confronting dominant
representations of masculinity within family archives. My sense is that in order to see him, I must undo his image.
