NS Harsha, an artist who lives and works in Mysore, is a recipient of the prestigious Artes Mundi 3 Prize, he has taken part in a range of collaborative projects and exhibitions internationally. The talented practitioner traverses a variety of media and materials including painting, drawing, and installations incorporating wood, mud, powder, photography and rice.
“This interaction with materials is not just about experimentation, but rather I treat these materials how I treat space and place,” he says. “They have their own story to tell… we need to listen to them and start a journey.” ‘Distress call from Jupiter’s neighborhood’ and ‘Distress call from Saturn’s neighborhood’ tap into the logic of the absurd to express the human connection with the cosmos. Drums accompany each of his paintings, inviting visitors to summon cosmic forces.
Born in Bhubaneswar, in the state of Orissa, New Delhi-based artist Jagannath Panda received his M.F.A. in sculpture from the MS University, Baroda. He went to Japan and England for further studies. The artist currently lives in the burgeoning city of Gurgaon, one of India’s major outsourcing hubs and bases of operation for global corporations.
His works illustrate the city life’s tensions, as over-development threatens natural habitats and infrastructures collapse before they are completed. Panda’s mix of mythology and realism points to the evolving nature of Indian identity and experience today. His snake sculpture ‘The Cult of Survival’ is an expression of the danger in becoming addicted to the cycle of production and consumption in a rapidly changing world. “The inter-entangled form of sewage pipes awakens the human condition,” he says, “the instinct of survival and the ecology of death and renewal of life.”
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