Armageddon

Armageddon is a long-term photographic project developed over eight years that explores the unstable boundary between the human body and the natural world. Through close observation, fragmentation and visual association, the photographs move between bodies, landscapes, stone, texture and other forms. A body can resemble a landscape; a surface can become difficult to identify; distinctions between human and non-human begin to dissolve. Rather than presenting the body as an isolated subject, the work considers it as part of a larger field of matter, time and transformation. The project also emerges from Kafare's experience of growing up in Mumbai, where physical proximity to other bodies was part of everyday life while the naked and intimate body remained culturally charged by ideas of privacy, shame and morality. Armageddon does not seek simply to make the body visible. Instead, it asks how cultural habits of looking shape what we recognise, conceal or separate. Abhinav Kafare (b. 1990) is an Indian visual artist and photographer based in Tampere, Finland. His practice investigates perception, the body and the shifting boundaries between the individual and their surroundings. Working primarily with photography, he also explores photobooks, installation and material forms. His work has been exhibited in India, Finland and Italy.