Arhant Shrestha

Born in Kathmandu in 1999, Arhant Shrestha left his hometown at the age of eighteen to study photography at Bard College in New York. Photography became a privileged means of exploring intimacy and revealing secret worlds. Among his early series, Between Space and Memory (2021) showed the complexity of Kathmandu, to which he had little access at the time, as his family, from a privileged background, wanted to protect him from the vicissitudes of city life. His images reveal the multiple layers of Nepalese society and explore issues of masculinity and identity. They were exhibited in 2022 at the Kathmandu Triennale and in 2023 in New Delhi. His exhibitions at 7L and Villa Noailles this fall will be his first presentations in Europe.