Prasanta Sahu

As an artist I am affected by the socio-political happenings of the day, yet the whole process is internalized and indirect. I look towards ready images as the data base of personal experience as well as the raw material of expression. Therefore in appropriating anonymous images from the media there is liberation from direct personal experience of reality, I have become the transcriber who reconstitutes images in the objective distancing of privacy.
I respond to different imagery, connecting one to the other and taking them out of context and rearranging them. I find that individual images in their own space carry specific meanings; these reorganized alongside other images while still retaining their original independence, create an edgy co-existence of conflicting values, completely different from those of the archetype. The resulting new sensation or meaning starts operating on multiple levels, allowing a constant visual re-reading of the arranged images, inviting and initiating a variety of interpretations tolerant of multiplicity. Thus I feel the "inventiveness" in my work, lies just as much in the selection and juxtaposing of the images, as in its technical manipulations.

M.F.A. (Painting) from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda (1998-2000)
B.A Fine Arts (Painting) from Kala-Bhavana, Visva- Bharati University, Santiniketan (1993-98)
Training in Electrical Engineering under O.S.E.B., Orissa, India (1986-87)
Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Barapada School of Engineering & Technology, Orissa (1983-86)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2013

- “Tomorrow”- a group show at ICIA Gallery, Mumbai
- “7th Bharat Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian art-2013” Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India.
- "100 Years of Indian Cinema" - a group show at Sarjan art gallery, Vadodara.
- Group show at Varendra art Gallery, Rajsahi, Bangladesh
- "Confluence des Arts" -a group show at gallery art chill, Jaipur
- "Modern and Contemporary Indian art auction-Spring-2013",a group show cum auction arranged by Sublime galleria and art Chutney , at Bangalore.
- "India Today, Copenhagen Tomorrow" , a sculpture group exhibition at Denmark Embassy, New Delhi, Jointly organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi and
Ganges art Gallery, Kolkata.


2012
- “Diverse Palette”, - a group show at Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts; M.S. University
Vadodara.
- “Small is Big” – Contemporary Miniature art Show of India, at Durbar Hall Gallery, Kochi
- “art in Santiniketan-to-day” a group show curated by Pranab Ranjan Roy, organised by
Pegasus art gallery and Santiniketan art hub, part-I at the state art gallery , Hyderabad
And part –II at Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad.
- “Beneath the black”, a group show at Gandhara art gallery, Kolkata


2011
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