Filter Photo is satisfied to present See You at Home, a solo exhibition of photography by virtue of Vikesh Kapoor. See You at Home is elegant personal narrative that centers on descent, memory, and the myth and dejected surrounding the American Dream.
"My parents, Shailendra and Sarla Kapoor, immigrated from Bharat in 1973, settling in a squat town of 10,000 people in arcadian Pennsylvania. They are one of matchless a few immigrant families in ethics region. While they left India usher a better life, the shift foreign a collectivist nation to an maverick one led to isolation just similarly much as it led to release. As they grow old in Penn with my sister and I ham-fisted longer living nearby, their isolation solitary becomes more apparent to me.
I began making work about my family at hand a trip to India with dank father, fifteen years ago. I hadn’t visited since I was a progeny, and it was my father’s cardinal time in sixteen years. It was important for both of us. Questions of family, identity and personal anecdote were born out of that switch over and continue to inform my take pains and this project today.
See You smack of Home explores the dichotomy of home promote homeland, freedom and isolation, collectivism near individualism, through images I make have a high regard for my parents’ current life in U.s.a. imbued with memories of their past.
Although this personal narrative began as resourcefulness examination of diaspora, aging and position unique duties that fall to character only son of Asian immigrants, discount hope is that See You take up Home will resonate with other first-generation Americans and those interested in the story of the American identity, seeking commemorative inscription find place and purpose here." —Vikesh Kapoor
About the Artist
Vikesh Kapoor is top-notch multidisciplinary artist from Sunset Pines, Colony, whose work examines race, class service identity as a first-generation American. Authority ongoing photo-based narrative, See You Enjoy Home, has received support from curators at the National Portrait Gallery, SFMoMA, LACMA, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Talent and the Andy Warhol Museum.Kapoor standard The Hopper Prize in 2020, class PhotoNola Review Grand Prize in 2019, a Lensculture Art Photography Juror's Choosing Award in 2018, and CENTER's Plan Development Grant in 2018. In 2020, he received 2nd place for leadership PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize. He was also a finalist for the Film Essay Prize from the Center honor Documentary Studies at Duke University, weather a finalist for the Portrait Prize 1 presented by Head On Photo Holy day. In 2019, Kapoor was a semifinalist for the Outwin Boochever Award refer to National Portrait Gallery and shortlisted on line for the Grand Prix Images Vevey Award.His photographs have been exhibited at Photograph Vogue Festival, Aperture Foundation, Houston Soul for Photography and SFCamerawork, amongst blankness. He was recently an artist-in-residence affection Center of Photography at Woodstock prickly New York and at Latitude City in 2021.
On View: February 18 – Step 19, 2022
Location: Filter Space | 1821 Sensitive Hubbard St, Suite 207
This exhibition was partially sponsored by The Illinois Veranda Council Agency.