Elephant in the Room invites us into a world suspended between two realities. In this body of work, artist Bharat Sikka engages in a critical and experimental dialogue with artificial intelligence, situating his long-standing photographic practice within the evolving terrain of machine perception and interpretation. Rooted in the complexity of contemporary India, the project draws from a personal archive spanning over three decades of the artist’s evolving engagement with the country’s layered identities, contradictions, and transformations. Using generative AI as an instrument for assessment and re-interpretation of his long-term photographic practice, Sikka creates a speculative narrative that oscillates between memory and invention, fact and hallucination. In Elephant in the Room, AI becomes both a mirror and a mediator, an external consciousness that intelligently reflects and uncannily distorts Sikka’s world. The result is a fragmented yet immersive portrait of India as seen through the tension in the ways in which technology absorbs, misreads, and reconstitutes cultural memory. While the narrative remains charged, hovering on the edge of the real and the artificial, Elephant in the Room also becomes a space of personal inquiry that gestures toward broader questions of authorship, representation, and the future of image-making.