Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce Pranati Panda’s much-awaited first solo show titled Speaking Threads, an exploration of self-hood as a site of art and life practice.
Influenced by the same instincts in life as her art, Pranati describes her decision to wait to showcase her work on this scale by analogizing herself as a river, having flowed with time to build a strong physical, emotional and mental connect to her work. Much of her oeuvre continues to be driven by self-analysis. Pranati’s primary concerns are the experience of time and the self, and the self in time, and she explores these philosophies viscerally as well as through personal anecdote. This thoughtful precision is exemplified in the rampant use of red in her work, which represents blood and life force, and the use of needle and thread, nostalgic for the childhood idyll of watching her mother knit also as a meditation on rebuilding and repair.
