Artist Pranati Panda’s exhibition Speaking Threads explores landscapes and human organs in sculpture, prints and paintings. By Sakshi Sharma
Threads, knitting and net are intertwined for the exhibition Speaking Threads. Through it, Pranati Panda explores landscapes and human organs in sculpture, prints and paintings which she fondly refers to as ‘time pieces’.
Pranati wanted to have a confluence of two energies. So she used both, what she perceives as ‘feminine’ materials such as thread and fabric alongside ‘masculine’ materials such as net and jaali. Said she, “I grew up watching my mother knit so I was very clear that I wanted to use it. I particularly used nets in my brain work because in our country women still need freedom and jaali symbolises a cage that they are trapped in. Though we suppress our feelings and emotions and don’t talk freely about them but we want to be free from all the atrocities.”
