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Kohra
Wood, wires, plaster, posters
Pratik’s practice has had a consistent engagement with light, shade, and their interstices and his work tends to probe these thematics through a developing interest in collectivity and assembly as modes of experience and perception. How do we gather around light, how do we huddle in the shadows? What are the forms that cloud or free our sight?
At Khoj, his sculptural installation is an invitation, by way of poetry, to think about the scatter of the whole: the work encourages the viewer to question where the distinctions lie between individual ways of seeing and larger, more total vocabularies of sight. The forces that illuminate or obfuscate our social and political realities figure as interlocked elements in his project—a nod to the bequest writ large in his practice and a technique through which he communicates the personal and carries his family’s knowledge of wood craft forward in his work. An affront to congruity and assimilation shapes the constitutive metaphor of Kohra, probing the audience to interrogate what assembles and dismantles the monolith.