A painter committed to village and small-town life, Shiva Prasad’s realism began with thinly layered, rough-tender portraits amid environments verging on the abstract and intensifying their essence as well as hinting of under currents of the archaic and the enigmatic. During the subsequent period of thick, impassioned pigmentation he conjured meetings between fragments of different realities- rural, urban, traditional indigenous and global- to enhance from the actual sense of their simultaneous attraction and clash. This led him to probe phenomenon of diverse kinds of perception and representation. 

For an artist whose intense paintings hold his identification with the subjects and draw the spectator to respond, the present installation project may be new to him as a medium, nevertheless brings his involvement to a pitch by emphasizing the existing concreteness of the work and by stimulating the viewer to interaction. The large wooden door is covered with a multitude of U-clamps, Shiva Prasad is asking the visitor to pick-up a lock from a heap nearby, lock his or her unwanted memories and throw away the key where it can not be found. Thus, sealed behind the door, the negative energies of people are hoped to leave then so that their positive potential becomes stimulated.