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PhotoNOLA 2021

See You At Home

Vikesh Kapoor - Our Childhood Swimming Pool

See You at Home
Vikesh Kapoor
December 9, 2021-January 29, 2022
Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 pm -9:00 pm

New Orleans Photo Alliance
7800 Oak Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
(619) 417-1886
Hours: Daily 11:00 pm -4:00 pm

 

Vikesh Kapoor

See You at Home is a personal narrative that centers on family, memory and the myth and melancholy surrounding the American Dream.

My parents, Shailendra and Sarla Kapoor, immigrated from India in 1971, settling in a small town of 10,000 people in rural Pennsylvania. They are one of only a few immigrant families in the region. While they left India for a better life, the shift from a collectivist nation to an individualistic one led to isolation just as much as it led to freedom. As they grow old in Pennsylvania with my sister and I no longer living nearby, their isolation only becomes more apparent to me.

I began making work about my family during a trip to India with my father, fifteen years ago. I hadn’t visited since I was a child, and it was my father’s first time in sixteen years. It was important for both of us. Questions of family, identity and personal history were born out of that trip and continue to inform my work and this project today.

See You at Home explores the dichotomy of home and homeland, freedom and isolation, collectivism and individualism, through images I make of my parents’ current life in America imbued with memories of their past.

 

Image: Vikesh Kapoor – Our Childhood Swimming Pool, 2016

Posted on: Nov 17 2021
Posted in: December 09, Exhibitions, Festival Events, Galleries, Lectures & Talks, PhotoNOLA 2021, Uptown

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