A number of work from lens-based artist and filmmaker Tejal Patni. Patni is predicated in Dubai and identified for creating putting, cinematic worlds that always hover between actuality and creativeness. His creative journey displays his deep fascination with reminiscence, notion, and the surreal typically layering playfulness with quiet introspection. These photos are a part of a photograph sequence primarily based on Patni’s immersive artwork set up titled “Longing.” The unique set up concerned reside actors and a constructed set. The venture is supposed to seize small, private moments: somebody ready, somebody misplaced in thought, somebody feeling one thing they’ll’t fairly identify. For Patni, artwork is a manner of stepping past the body, creating layered experiences the place the viewer is not only trying, however residing contained in the work:
“I would like individuals to really feel like contributors in a dialog between gentle, colour, and emotion. In the end, my follow is about dissolving boundaries between actuality and dream, between artist and viewers, and providing small moments of surprise and reflection in a world that strikes too quick.”
Tejal Patni participated in our 2025 Booooooom Artwork & Photograph E book Award and made our shortlist.
