本作は、作家自身が30年以上にわたり撮影してきたインドに関する膨大な写真をAIに解釈させてつくられたイメージで構成されています。AIという「誤読を内包する他者」を通して、インド特有の鮮やかな色彩や混沌、急速な社会変容など、シッカの世界を知的に反映しながら、その光景はシュルレアリスティックな現実として立ち現れます。タイトルの「Elephant in the Room」は「皆が知っているにもかかわらず、見て見ぬふりをしている重大な問題」を表す英語の慣用句であり、作者は本作を通して、テクノロジーが文化的記憶を吸収し、誤読し、再構成する場所としてのインドを描き出しています。今日のインドが抱える多層的な問題を、制作手法そのもので批評的に再構築した一冊です。
‘Elephant in the Room’ presents a world suspended between two realities. Bharat Sikka engages in a critical and experimental dialogue with AI, situating his photographic practice within the evolving terrain of machine perception and interpretation. Rooted in the complexity of today’s India, the project draws from a personal archive spanning over three decades of engagement with its layered identities, contradictions, and transformations. AI becomes both mirror and mediator, an external consciousness that intelligently reflects and uncannily distorts Sikka’s world – a fragmented yet immersive portrait of India, where technology absorbs, misreads, and reconstitutes cultural memory. Text by Charlotte Cotton, Designed by Hans Gremmen.
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