Prajakta Potnis

(b. 1980, Thane, India)

Prajakta Potnis’  work digs deeper into the nexus between the frailty of a human body and the greed of a capitalist state. Through the process of paintings, radiology, video and time-based installations she examines the overburdened female body that has been incessantly exposed to varied forms of toxicity. Her works draw upon the chasm witnessed within the everyday domestic in context of gender and social divide. The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India. 

Her work has been shown in a number of solo exhibitions, including A Body Without Organs and When the wind blows, Project 88, Mumbai (2020, 2016); The Kitchen Debate, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Time Lapse, The Guild, Mumbai (2012); Porous walls, The Guild, Mumbai (2008) and Membranes and Margins, EM Gallery, Seoul (2008).Potnis has extensively shown her works both nationally and internationally, her most recent project was a part of Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi for the 15th Sharjah Biennale (2023). Among her group exhibitions are Imaged Documents curated by Ravi Agarwal at the 2022 Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (2022); the slow burn at The New Media Art Space, Baruch College, CUNY, New York (2021); Towards Mysterious Realities, TKG Foundation and Cube Project Space, Taipei (2017); OK. PANGAN, OK.Video – Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017); The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do)?, Gwangju Biennale (2016); After Midnight, Queens Museum, New York (2015); Whorled Explorations, Kochi-MuzirisBiennale (2014); Shamans and Dissent, TZ Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); L’exigence de la saudade, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2013) and WE HAVE ARRIVED NOWHERE, 2nd Transnational Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2013).