PRASANTA GHOSH

Prasanta Ghosh (b. 1986), whose practice explores the entangled relationships between language, identity, architecture, and urban life. Ghosh, who holds a Master’s degree from M.S. University, Baroda (2016), lives and works between Bangalore and Kolkata, and is widely recognized for his thought-provoking, materially diverse installations and new media experiments.

This exhibition features a new body of work that interrogates the crisis of language—its capacity to shape identity, perception, and belonging, while simultaneously acting as a barrier within culturally stratified systems. Ghosh examines whether native language liberates or limits, particularly in contexts where linguistic hierarchies govern mobility and cultural inclusion.

Alongside this inquiry into language, the exhibition explores the architecture of the urban environment as a lived structure of power, ecology, and memory. Using structural drawings, spatial compositions, and symbolic installations, Ghosh investigates how cities and built forms mediate relationships—between people, classes, and histories. His work reveals how urban spaces function as arenas of tension, where cultural narratives and societal boundaries are continuously redrawn.

Ghosh’s project builds on a growing body of critical engagement. He was awarded the Generator Grant by Experimenter Labs for his project “Green is Calling Back the Ancient Lost Greenery” (2020), which was later exhibited at Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata (2022). His recent show, “The Weapon is Poetic”, was held at 1Shanthiroad, Bangalore (2024). Internationally, he participated in “Random Variables” at the WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg, Canada, screening his short documentary “Unsaid”.