Getting a platform to showcase your art right after you step out of college is every young artist's dream. Khoj International Artists’ Association provides just this mentorship through its annual Peers residency that provides recent graduates and masters students from various art and design institutes across the country an opportunity for exchange and dialogue.
Khatua had used burnt matchsticks and paper for his installation work. He says, “Burnt matchsticks serve as a metaphor for the combustible city and its colossal constructs. My work depicts the contrast and diversity between rural and urban life.” Among his work one also finds photographs of urban symbols like flyovers and streetlights.
1 July 2015
