Prasantha Sahu's contribution to Small is Big 2012

Artist :  Prasantha Sahu
Title :Blue print of a hand 
Media : Transfer and acrylic on acid free paper
Size : 9 inches x 7 inches
Debut show : Small is Big 2012
Price :  contact  artestateindia@gmail.com

Artist :  Prasantha Sahu
Title :Blue print of foot
Media : Transfer and acrylic on acid free paper
Size : 9 inches x 7 inches
Debut show : Small is Big 2012
Price :  contact  artestateindia@gmail.com

Artist :  Prasantha Sahu
Title :X ray of a political speech
Media : Transfer and acrylic on acid free paper
Size : 9 inches x 7 inches
Debut show : Small is Big 2012
Price :  contact  artestateindia@gmail.com

Artist :  Prasantha Sahu
Title :X ray of a political speech
Media : Transfer and acrylic on acid free paper
Size : 9 inches x 7 inches
Debut show : Small is Big 2012
Price :  contact  artestateindia@gmail.com





Artist : Prasantha Sahu

Title :A contextual study of Kosuth's hammer
Media : Transfer and acrylic on acid free paper
Size : 9 inches x 7 inches
Debut show : Small is Big 2012
Price :  contact  artestateindia@gmail.com

Prasantha Sahu is from Santhiniketan. He says about one of the work presented above....

" This drawing ( blue print of foot ) is my interpretation of relocation and migration, which is as ancient as the human race itself. But here, I am talking about a forceful  unwanted migration, where people involuntarily leave their  native regions due to riots between different classes, threat to life or race.Sometimes this exodus walks hundreds of miles to save their lives and family. In India, ethnic minorities fleeing their homeland and transplanting to other parts to save their lives is a tragic event we come across repeatedly throughout our history. There have been numerous eerie repetitions of the India-Pakistan partition and the India Bangladesh division.Yet I fail to see any change in the situation in last 60- 70 years. In post independent India, Kashmiri Pundits, Tibetans, and lately the flight of the Hindu community from Pakistan and the very recent incident in Assam repeats the same age old story. This painfully tragic practice of a person or persons unwillingly leaving the homeland/home in ones lifetime is in complete strife with the very basics of humanity.

In the work, The shape of a leg ( my own leg) is imprinted/ embossed with a regional map of India, which looks like skin textures, veins, hairs.We always carry within us the culture, ethics, social customs. The angst of displacement imprints the lost homeland within us. The Map, the landscape, rivers, lakes mountains etc is not an external entity rather becomes an integral part of the body itself."