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​​​​Thasil Suhara Backer is a self-taught photographer and an essayist. Formally trained in Theatre Arts. Engaging both incorporeal and corporeal data, Thasil's practice navigates vernacular, geological, and archival landscapes and locations across the archipelago.

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Group Exhibitions:​

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  • Vantage Point Sharjah 12, Sharjah Art Foundation, Curated by Sara Al Mheiri, Curator, SAF, (UAE), 2024.

  • Permanent Conference, Curated by Shristi Sainani, Gallery Navya, Delhi Art Week, (IN), 2023.

  • Kerala Lalitkala Academy annual exhibition (IN), 2023.

 

​​Projects:

 

  • Muziris to Lakhpat, Project implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund, (IN), (2023). 

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Contributions:

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  • Spatial Palimpsests: Inhabiting History, Ecology, and the Personal, Critical Collective, (IN), 2026.

  • Third Bodies: Unsettling Natures in Posthuman Ecologies, Writing Natures_Issue 2, Insubordinate Vitalities: Nature across Documentary, Issue Conceptualised and edited by Arushi Vats, Published by Shared Ecologies: A Shyama Foundation Initiative, (IN), 2026.

  • Ruins of Egmore, Perspectives, IMART formerly MAP Academy, A unit of  Art & Photography Foundation, and a partner of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), (IN), 2025.

  • How to get ready for a protest, Home is Where the Hearts Strives, Anthology on Place and Sound, edited by Philipp Rhensius, Janina Neustupny, Thomas Burkhalter, Hannes Liechti, and Vinzent Maria Preuß (eds.), Published by Norient Sound, (CH), 2025.

  • Dialogical Body – Breathing in the ruins, Accompanying text for the fourth session of Educational Programme Bárawa: On freestyle~improvisation as aesthetic tool and strategy, Published by Journeys of OCEAN / UNI, TBA21 – Academy, (IT), 2025.

  • Mobility, Issue 20, Hakara: bilingual journal of creative expression, (IN), 2023.

  • Contemporary Pollution, Elephant in the Room, Published by Conflictorium, (IN), Stroom Den Haag, (NL),(2022).​​

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Awards:​

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  • Young Writer's Award in Photography presented by PhotoSouthAsia and Critical Collective (CC), (IN), 2026.​

  • Young Artist Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2013–2014).

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© 2026 | Thasil Suhara Backer
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