A spotlight on Dhrupadi Ghosh and Prajakta Potnis

Indian artists Dhrupadi Ghosh and Prajakta Potnis were dispatched to Shanghai in late 2011. The former’s Her practice sails through painting, site-specific sculptural installations to public art interventions. Her work dwells between the intimate world of an individual and the world outside which is separated sometimes only by a wall. She refers to the wall as a witness to history that has traces of inhabitance embedded within.

She tries to contextualize the wall from a middle class home to the walls that build intuitions with a membrane through which imperceptible elements pass and affect the psyche of individuals. How resolutions passed, transgress and enter an individual’s private space. The wall becomes a starting point within her work through which she addresses social and individual anxieties. Potnis effortlessly weaves complexities of emotions and the veracity of today’s times through her practice.

Dhrupadi Ghosh triggers a process of taking a maiden name Wahshat. She intrigues a conversation on land make where street is the witness of mega city camp. Thus she preferred moving ahead from a desktop view to a ‘non- conditioned to view’ province of experiential streets.

While studying in Villa Arson and working at serigraphy studio, teacher Anne said “are you going to place the stickers in gallery”? The stickers said ‘en fait’ and ‘absurd’ were placed around the walls of Le ray and jean Medecin overnight. Petite silkscreen stickers offset or digi posters, sloganeering or simple stencils mark the physical texture of a barren or macro active space. ‘Experience as habitation’ intervenes the social matrix of functioning as a performer. She thinks that ‘labor’ brings her some pint of power and interactive mode of operation to push the boundaries.

The fading landscape, deportation of ‘once a believer’ and the ‘inclusive’ deal of real-estate disturbs and doesn’t let you sleep’ .Yet she knows that one can do her part with the public bodies of work as some unit mass. The third person, may it be the viewer can generate force to it, and the whole process gets the motion. Rest is not in control. So creating a performative space, reactivating the particles could be the soul choice of an immigrant body like of hers.

Even as Dhrupadi Ghosh and Prajakta Potnis visited Shanghai, Chinese artists Zheng Bo and Liu Wei, together with Taiwanese curator Amy Cheng were in Delhi. Their collective thoughts, discussions, and notes will gradually develop themselves into art works in the months to come.