Thasil Suhara Backer (b. 1992, Kerala) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice critically engages with ecology and biopolitics through the dual frameworks of theatre and visual art. His work constructs narratives that interrogate the complexities of modern existence, often centering on themes of decay and renewal. Working across image-based media, Thasil examines the relational interdependencies between the tangible and the unknown, seeking intimate narratives that challenge conventional epistemologies and archival paradigms—Focusing on materiality, corporeality, and cultural memory, particularly concerning coastal ecologies, heritage ruins, and museum sites. Rooted in an engagement with vernacular and feral ecologies, his works move through the converging junctures of geographies, ecological and existential experiences, conceptual theories, and metalogics,—foregrounding the entanglements of nature, the body, mind, perception, and knowledge models.
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He has contributed to the field through projects such as TBA21 – Academy | Journeys of OCEAN / UNI: Bárawa, 2024; Anthology on Place and Sound by Norient Sound, CH, 2024; Muziris to Lakhpat by the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice program supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund, 2023; and the Elephant in the Room project by Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict, India, in collaboration with Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, NL, 2022.
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His group exhibitions include Vantage Point Sharjah 12, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2024; Care is Art, Art is Care (Virtual), 2024; Deep Objekt [ ]: Agency at the Computational Turn, Foreign Objekt (Virtual), 2024; Permanent Conference, Delhi Art Week, 2023; 51st Kerala Lalitkala Academy Annual Exhibition, 2023; and Landspaces, Art Houz, Chennai, 2019.
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Thasil earned a Master’s in Performing Arts from the University of Hyderabad and subsequently trained at the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calicut, Kerala, and was awarded the Young Artist Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2013–2014).