Bhargav Barla

His current body of work revolves around his roots in the small city on the eastern coast. Both philosophically and artistically, this particular body of work from the exhibition: Brink, curated by Monica Jain is about using the idea of the sea, a constant companion and bystander while growing up, to create interactions with the Self, imbuing it with deeper meaning through image-making and conceptual photographic practice. The sea remains present and permanent in him (re)appearing in varying forms that are extremely poetic, personal and layered. These photographs are stories by themselves and not necessarily in any sequence. In his quest for learning more about art, he has been travelling for quite some time. Most of his works are acts of rumination rather than resolution and remain highly autobiographical in nature. \

Bhargav Barla is a visual artist who completed his MFA from Shiv Nadar University (Performing Art and Design) in 2019, and a MFA from Santiniketan(Painting) in 2016 and a BFA in (Painting) from Department of Fine Arts, Andhra University in 2014. He works primarily in the medium of painting and photography and is currently engaged with research on photobooks (The idea of single image narratives). His work has been displayed in multiple group exhibitions nationally and internationally, Building Bridges, a group exhibition at Old Tourist Burma Building, Yangon, Myanmar curated by Ushmita Sahu in 2019; a solo thesis exhibition at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida 2019 and Building Bridges, group exhibition at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore and Art Konsult, New Delhi also curated by Ushmita Sahu, 2018 among others.

He lives and works between Visakhapatnam and New-Delhi.