worldmap
The average person knows 500–2500 people (fucking big range imho; miles between the 500 and the 2500 there). A metric called the Dunbar’s Number caps this at 150 meaningful, stable social relationships. worldmap is a physical archiving exercise that attempts to visualise human connection through the lens of the universally relatable ‘passport photograph’, using a single collaged visual.
Hello World!
An ode to Swedish computer scientist and philosopher Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Hypothesis, Hello World! is the result of an obsessive practice that involves the creation of inexhaustible, ever-expansive visual realities out of lens-based image-making exercises, each lasting roughly 15–20 minutes. It attempts to contrast, or rather highlight the temporal limitations of carbon-based life and the human experience against the scale of an information-based reality.
t minus
Breaking time and space through a carefully orchestrated dialogue between simple imaging tools like plane mirrors, cameras and projectors. A device that can theoretically trap light information within a given space infinitely, only limited by digital imaging, resolution, and storage limitations.
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Photographs of my mother taken and collected by my father over a period of 20 years from 1981–2001, compiled as a personal artefact — a single edition publication.
in-between
Remnants of a drunken, drug-fuelled backpacking rampage across mainland Europe, remembered with the help of cheap color film and a digital camera roll on a smartphone.
DHN–BKSC–TATA
Survey of the land of Jharkhand in East India, entirely through a lens provided by the Indian Railways; an entity closely tied to the history and present reality of its industrial economy.
Unique Garden Decor
RM Agronature Pvt. Ltd.
Reebok India
Viridian Landscape
Levels Design Consultants
Integral de(x)
Integral de(x)
ArchDaily
Design Detail Magazine
Design Detail Magazine
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Sidharthan (b.1994) is a visual artist based in Kochi, India, who works primarily with photography, film, publications, and mixed-media outcomes.
His work navigates a wide variety of themes ranging from personal experience and familiar photo-archives, to indigenous socio-cultural practices and contemporary counterculture, to subjects like dataism, posthumanism, computation futures, and simulation theory. His commercial practice predominantly addresses digital marketing requirements in the domains architectural design, interior design, landscape design, and retail experience design.
exhibitions
2021
2020
awards & grants
2022
2021
2020
experience
2024–Present
2021–2023
2016–Present
education
2017–2022
2018–2019
2012–2017