Sarker Protick’s photographs frequently build the narrative around the trope of change; momentary stillness, fleeting light, elemental origins of a place and a lost home. To make the decaying memory tangible, to define disappearing history of a place without confining it, Protick’s often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance.
SARKER PROTICK
- All
- Astres Noirs
- Love Me or Kill Me
- Of River and Lost Lands
- Ruins
- What Remains
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Love Me or Kill Me
Of River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
What Remains
What Remains
What Remains
What Remains
What Remains
Sarker Protick frequently builds his visual narrative around the trope of change; momentary stillness, fleeting light, elemental origins of a place and a lost home. To make the decaying memory tangible, to define the disappearing history of a place without confining it, Protick’s often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance.
Working with Photography, Video and Sound, Protick’s works are built on long-term surveys rooted in Bangladesh. The form and materiality of his works often morph into the physicality of time; its raptures and our inability to grasp or hold time, the process of image-making as a way to expand time, to make space for more subdued moments, or hints of an embodied life. Here we don’t experience time as moving in a linear direction, rather a slowing down, a recurrence, having dips and curves, sometimes changing in a constant flux.
Protick studied at the South Asian Media Institute – Pathshala in Dhaka, where he has taught for last nine years. Protick is a co-curator of Chobi Mela International Photography Festival in Asia. He has received recognition and fellowships, including; Joop Swart Masterclass, Foam Talent, Light Work Residency, Magnum Foundation Fund, and World Press Photo Award.
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Solo: নিরবধি / Nirobodhi (Till Time Stand Still) by Sarker Protick. Shrine Empire, Delhi, India
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
‘TIBRO’ [Pathshala’s 23 Years Anniversary], Dhaka, Bangladesh
2021
32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Singapore
‘Growing Like a Tree’, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE
2020
Yokohama Triennale 2020, Afterglow, Yokohama, Japan
Nach Uns Die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Related Realities, BL2020, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
Dead Can Dance: The Lock Up Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Noor Der Licht, Generation Z: Tell me, Gronigen, The Netherlands
2019
Solo: Of River and Lost Lands, Impact Doc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bruised: Art, Action and Ecology in Asia’, RMIT Gallery. Melbourne, Australia
Stories of Earthly Survival, Ci.CLO Biennial, Porto, Portugal
2018
(Dis)Place, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural center, Delhi
Temporary Certainty, 4A Centre for contemporary Asia Art. Sydney, Australia
Breaking Point, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany
‘Relics’, Esplanade Visual Arts Center, Singapore Art Week. Singapore
2017
Paris Photo, Solo show, East Wing Gallery, France
Dispatches The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, USA
Chobi Mela Photo Festival IX, Bangladesh
2016
Solo: ‘What Remains’ at Latvina Museum of Photography, Latvia
Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
Art Dubai, Eat Wing, Dubai, UAE
2015
Photo Quai Biannual, Paris, France
Encontros da Imagem, Burga, Portugal
Delhi Photo Festival, Delhi, India
Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia
Defying the laws of gravity, Richmix London, United Kingdom
2014
Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2013
Noorderlicht Photography Festival ’20 By 20′ Exhibition, The Netherlands
Chobi Mela VII International Photography Festival, Bangladesh
Photovisa Festival, Moscow, Russia
Festival of Promenades Photographiques Vendome, France
Organ Vida Photo Festival, Croatia
2012
Noorderlicht Photo festival, Gronigen, The Netherlands
Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
World Bank Art Program: Dhaka, Delhi, Washington
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2012
Prix Mark Grosset pour les écoles internationales de photographie
2013
Winner of World Bank Art Program
2014
‘Ones to Watch’ – (featured), British Journal of Photography
World Press Photo Joop Swart Master class
2015
Photo District News’s 30 Emerging Photographer
World Press Photo Award (For ‘What Remains’)
2016
Residency at Gibellina Photo Road
2017
Winner of The Australian Photobook of the Year Grand Prize
2018
Recipient of Magnum Foundation Fund
2019
Khoj – Curatorial Intensive South Asia.
Light Work Residency, Syracuse, New York.
2021
Foam Talent, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.