01_twomountains _sun_sky

 

Author's note: 01_twomountains_sun_sky is a digital folio with four pages, including the cover and back.

“If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes” – Agnes Varda.

"When I opened a landscape, I found a portrait of my grandmother. In a digital interface, the graphic symbol of a landscape indicates an image file. Whether the image is of a city, a photograph of a person, a document, a screenshot, actual or virtual, from any geographical location—the symbol remains unaltered. These standard icons facilitate a common language but function at the cost of intimacy and context of the image. This folio questions the generic landscape of the picture icon over the inhabited landscape of the image."

 

Priyesh Gothwal is a Delhi-based visual artist who works with a range of mediums such as drawing, text, video, and photography. His practice focuses on the formation of language, fiction, and different narrative configurations. He completed his MFA from Shiv Nadar University in 2017 and was a resident artist in the Ashkal Alwan-Home Workspace program in Lebanon from 2019 to 2020.

Priyesh is one of the founding members of firstdraft and has initiated a series of Book Shows. He is currently managing and teaching in the BFA program at JSLH in OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat.