Thasil Suhara Backer
Thasil Suhara Backer
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Preferred pronouns:he/him
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Birth year:1992
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"Third Bodies", an image-based work that explores cultural memory, historical figures, and archival objects to create hyper-real images, examining the nature of reality and human perception.
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Thasil examines ecology and biopolitics through a dual lens of theatre and visual art, constructing narratives exploring the complexities of modern existence. His work centers on telling stories that capture the poetics of everyday life, linked with themes of cultural heritage, memories, decay, and renewal, weaving fragmented multiplicities of narratives around disruption, archives, preservation, and critique. Thasil incorporates various mediums, primarily focusing on developing photographic images intersecting transcultural geopolitical contexts with the corporeal and material aspects of human and non-human ecological, technological, and metaphysical realms.
He has contributed to the field through projects such as TBA21 – Academy | Journeys of OCEAN / UNI: Bárawa, 2024; Anthology on Place and Sound by Norient Sound, CH, 2024; Muziris to Lakhpat by the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice program supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund, 2023; and the Elephant in the Room project by Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict, India, in collaboration with Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, NL, 2022.
His group exhibitions include Vantage Point Sharjah 12, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2024; Care is Art, Art is Care (Virtual), 2024; Deep Objekt [ ]: Agency at the Computational Turn, Foreign Objekt (Virtual), 2024; Permanent Conference, Delhi Art Week, 2023; 51st Kerala Lalitkala Academy Annual Exhibition, 2023; and Landspaces, Art Houz, Chennai, 2019.
Thasil earned a Master’s in Performing Arts from the University of Hyderabad and subsequently trained at the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calicut, Kerala, and was awarded the Young Artist Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India(2013-2014).
Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:
- Muziris to Lakhpat, India, 2023, The project aims to create an anarchive of fortifications that have fallen into disrepair along the Arabian Sea. This foundation project implementaed by IFA
- Persisting Threads, 2023
- സമകാലമലീനം/Contemporary Pollution, India, 2022, is a project by Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict (India) in collaboration with contemporary art center Stroom Den Haag in The Hague (NL)