Harshal Khatri is a Multimedia Artist from Ujjain exploring Painting, Soil as material & metaphor and Animation to reflect on the entangled, complex relationship between Human and the Natural World. His Artistic Practice revolves around Painting, animation and digital media. Soil, with its rawness and ambiguity, allows him to collapse boundaries between Human and non-human, planetary & local. Khatri is particularly interested in representing our understanding of the "natural world" as something simultaneously intimate and distant, known and unknowable.

The artwork “Layers, We can not Hide”, is multimedia artwork which involves the play of Lenticular prints, Soil and Animation. The installation unfolds as a confrontation between the hyper-digital surfaces of contemporary life and the elemental force of life. Inspired by the aesthetics of video games, the work stages a “knock out” moment—not as defeat by an external opponent, but as a metaphor for our conflicted relationship with the planet.

The takeaway for the audience is revealed through the work's layers, which talk about the same Human Instinct: To contain. To organise. To make sense of the organic - through structure and containment. They reveal our quiet restlessness when these defences get breached.