How Rohan Hande Uses Art to Redefine Strength?
- Artlune
- Jul 24
- 2 min read
In a world that often equates masculinity with stoicism, Rohan Hande’s art gently asks us to pause and reconsider. A multidisciplinary artist working across photography, collage, and installation, Hande explores themes of intimacy, memory, and queer identity with quiet urgency. His work doesn’t just reflect his narrative; it echoes a broader, often invisible, struggle: the emotional landscapes that many men are taught to suppress.
This conversation sits at the heart of Fragile Strength. By using art as a bridge to dialogue, it challenges long-held ideas of masculinity that discourage vulnerability and emotional expression. Rohan’s practice aligns deeply with this vision, offering a visual vocabulary for emotions that are often hard to name but deeply felt.
Rethinking Masculinity Through Art
Hande’s practice often examines how tenderness can exist within masculinities shaped by social repression. His work becomes a subtle yet potent resistance to the idea that men must remain unshakable in the face of adversity. Through textured imagery and layered narratives, he creates visual spaces that validate emotions like grief, longing, confusion, and transformation experiences that men are rarely given space to voice.
Like Fragile Strength, his art breaks the silence. His installations and collages invite viewers into moments of introspection, encouraging them to reflect on their own emotional experiences and how those are shaped by culture, upbringing, and community.
Both the artist and the project raise an important question: What if being vulnerable isn’t a weakness, but a key part of being strong?
From Personal Reflection to Shared Stories
Rohan’s early work focused on self-portraiture and the search for identity during a time of personal transition and emotional upheaval. As his practice evolved, he began exploring broader themes like the cycles of life, mortality, and the emotional weight we carry.
He once described how even the everyday act of getting dressed can be an intimate reflection of our inner world: how the way we button a shirt or choose a silhouette reveals quiet decisions between modesty, confidence, and vulnerability. (Source)
In a fashion campaign, Rohan expressed this tension through collage, blending limbs, fabric, and motion to create visual metaphors for identity. By obscuring facial features, he invites viewers to see themselves in the work, offering a space for connection and interpretation.
Where Art and Healing Meet
In a time of endless scrolling and surface-level consumption, Rohan’s work asks something radical: attention. His website includes hidden messages, encouraging viewers to stay with the work, explore it slowly, and uncover its multiple dimensions.
His work doesn’t shout. It lingers, drawing us in with its quiet power and emotional honesty. His practice, like Fragile Strength, carves out space for vulnerability in places it has long been denied. It aims to shift how we talk and feel about male mental health.
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