Lojithan Ram revisits family albums, transforming them from static records into embodiments of tender longing. In his cyanotype prints, haunting apparitions of landscapes and family photographs, strewn with blooming lotuses and resonant with the cadence of ritual hymns, become a necessary shelter. Rooted in the exploration of archives and text, his practice emerges from an intimate confrontation with estrangement, both lived and inherited.

Ram layers these images with text from Vaikuntha Ammanai, a cathartic chant that eases the pain of separation from loved ones, alongside line drawings that act as totems to a personal history. Rather than anchoring himself solely in his own story, Ram turns toward a broader, collective narrative — the dislocation and rootlessness experienced by his community in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka — finding echoes of his own experience in shared silences and spectral absences.