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Prajakta Potnis
time lapse
The Guild Art Gallery is delighted to present ‘ time lapse’, solo exhibition
of Prajakta Potnis previewing on Friday,
September 14.
“Between the intimate world of an individual and
the world outside which is separated sometimes only by a wall
there are imperceptible elements that may transgress and affect
the psyche of individuals. My attempt is to address social and
individual anxieties through the degeneration that happens within
the everyday. From decaying vegetables in a refrigerator, which
may be genetically modified to cancerous growth on everyday
objects, I have realised that the passage of time has somehow
always found a way into my work. Objects and spaces, that have a
time told testimony to give, often disclose an out of control
situation, an outburst that is often result of apathy or neglect,
interestingly woven within the fabric of time.
When i was invited to show my works in Mumbai and
Kolkata simultaneously, I looked at the opportunity to view the
two cities through the lens of time, there is a time difference
between Mumbai and Kolkata to start with which is not followed,
since post independence, according to UTC (coordinated time zones)
Mumbai is 1 hour, 2 Minutes and 9.6000000000017 seconds behind the
scheduled time in Kolkata .I wanted to explore and unravel such
layers only to have a better understanding of both the cities.
What intrigues me is while this interlude is
veiled, the lapse continues to occur in a way like a slip through
the cracks. My past experience with interventions within public
spaces, that have been city centric mostly, on local issues such
as land grab, water politics have enabled me to experience in
first person the loop holes that exist within our warped
bureaucratic system.
One can experience stagnation and apathy of a
veiled governance as soon as one gets acquainted with it at ground
level. I am trying to look at the time lapse that prevails and
metaphorically connect it to a systems failures that exits in both
the cities.” - Prajakta Potnis
Potnis received her BFA and MFA from Sir J.J School
of Art, Mumbai, India (1995/2002). Her multidisciplinary work
spans painting, installation, sculpture and photography and
investigates the porousness and interpenetrability of boundaries
and binaries such as inside/outside, public/private,
natural/engineered, and has been shown to critical acclaim in
India and internationally in various museums/institutes,
including Ullens
Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2012); Zacheta
National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2011); Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2011); MAXXI National Museum of XXI
Century Arts, Rome (2011); Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris,
France (2011); HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
(2010); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway(2009); Essl
Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria (2010); KHOJ
International Artists’ Workshop, New Delhi (2009); KHOJ
International Artists’ Workshop, Mumbai (2005); National Gallery
of Modern Art, Mumbai (2002). Solo exhibitions include, Porous
Walls, The Guild art gallery, Mumbai (2008); Membranes and
Margins, Em Gallery, Seoul (2008); walls- in- between, The Guild
art gallery, Mumbai (2006).
Her work has been featured in significant
publications including ‘The
KHOJ Book of Indian Contemporary Art: 1997-2007’, Editor Pooja
Sood (HarperCollins
India Original, 2010); ‘I’m
Not There: New Art from Asia,’ Editor Cecilia Alemani (The Gwangju
Biennale Foundation, 2010); ‘Younger than Jesus: The Artist
Directory’ (New Museum and Phaidon, 2009).
Potnis
is also the recipient of the major awards including the Sanskriti Award
for Art (2010), the Inlaks Fine Arts award (2003-2004), and the
Young Artist fellowship, from the Indian National Department of
Culture (2001- 2003).
On view till October 27, 2012 |
