In “In Between the Lines and Walls”, Prasanta Ghosh presents a body of work that navigates the unseen yet deeply felt spaces where language, identity, and architecture intersect. Drawing from a multidisciplinary practice rooted in observation, storytelling, and personal immersion, Ghosh interrogates the ways in which systems—both spoken and built—construct, restrict, and define human experience.

Language, in Ghosh’s work, becomes more than a communicative tool; it is a site of tension, a cultural gatekeeper, and a marker of belonging or exclusion. The artist probes the crisis of expression within linguistic hierarchies, asking whether our native tongues liberate or confine us, particularly in urban environments shaped by social and economic mobility. Words become both bridges and barriers—lines that speak, but also lines that silence.

Parallel to this inquiry, architecture emerges not just as physical structure but as a symbolic representation of societal order and historical layering. Ghosh explores how the city, as both concept and experience, dictates patterns of movement, access, and interaction—how walls, literally and metaphorically, separate or contain, protect or alienate. Through structural installations, sound, drawing, and text, he reflects on how urbanity and language together shape the narratives of those who inhabit these spaces, especially those living at the periphery of dominant cultural and linguistic frameworks.

The exhibition is imbued with a quiet urgency—a sense of listening deeply to the murmurs of overlooked truths and the dissonance between visible order and invisible trauma. Ghosh’s role as listener, observer, and sometimes orator, lends the work a humanistic resonance. His pieces become not just aesthetic experiences, but socio-political engagements that challenge viewers to examine the constructed realities they inhabit.

In Between the Lines and Walls invites us to question what remains unsaid, who builds the spaces we live in—linguistically and physically—and how those structures impact our agency, identity, and collective memory. Ghosh does not offer easy answers, but instead carves out a space for critical reflection, empathy, and a more nuanced understanding of what it means to live within, and sometimes against, the lines and walls that define us.

Imprint or impression of language
18 x 12 Inches | Set of 15
Carbon paper print, pen and ink on paper
2024

Amid constant conflict in time and space, I found myself repeatedly entering an imaginary realm, unable to connect with the present civilization. I moved through unfamiliar layers of time, detached from a coloured consciousness I could not grasp. Seeking to escape the gray weight of reality, I saw my environment reflected anew each day mere echoes of passing moments.

In the film, I depict a single moment recurring across different spaces: a man and a boy on horseback traverse a green field at various stages, ultimately merging into a house symbolizing its decay from the present into the past.