It's My House!

Manjari Sharma, based in Los Angeles, was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and makes art that addresses the issues of memory, identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. After moving to New York City, she gained notoriety for her long-term project titled "The Shower Series." With this series, Manjari began creating work that was just as much about the materiality of water as it was about the inner landscape of the human mind. Expanding her art practice, Manjari has continued incorporating sound, motion, projection, and collage into her work. Manjari's project 'Darshan' (Published by Nazraeli press) is a photographic re-imagining of Hindu deities that garnered her wide critical acclaim. In 2017 the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned Manjari to create a collaborative piece that received international praise and recognition. Manjari's work has been seen in The New York Times, Vice Magazine, CNN, LA Times, The Huffington Post, and NPR, to name a few. Works from her projects have been published, exhibited, and traveled to galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide. Manjari's work is in the permanent collection of The MET, MFA, Houston, Carlos Museum, and Birmingham Museum of Art, amongst various private collections.

Surface Tension series (2019 - ongoing)

“When the outer plane gets punctured. A new world appears; Figures turn into landscapes, limbs into fins, and bodies morph and merge into peculiar yet familiar organic shapes and structures. A ceremonial splash is followed by a momentary lapse of consciousness, and then new galaxies are born with every drawn breath. What are we but a series of star-crossed enigmas; A deck of cards in the wind, twisted by fate and held together, loosely, by a glue that has no name.

For this project, I photographed people as they immersed themselves in a pool. This work reflected on how the cleansing power of water became a conduit to vulnerable pictures and disarming conversations. I made audio recordings of these conversations alongside portraits and videos. As seen below, in order to create an immersive experience of people and their relationship with water I experimented with digitally projecting captured videos into the surface of the pool.”

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