Skin of the Earth
 
Exhibition of Recent Works by Babu Eshwar Prasad

February 20 – March 13, 2013
Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

The exhibition presents a series of works that engage with the idea of soil. This preoccupation
shows itself at many levels – examining the soil's formal qualities and textures, and the kind of
sedimentation that occurs over time, as well as speaking of it metaphorically, of the earth 'bearing witness'. It explores ecological ramifications, looking at the phenomena of industrialization and the kind of impressions it has made on the landscape.

I remain interested in the concept of utility in the age of industrial production and excessive
consumption where an object quickly morphs from being a luxury item, to turning into basic
necessity and finally getting discarded. Construction machinery and sites, hi-tension cable wires, the junkyards of industrial relics, building equipment and signage that dot the city, anthills, mining sites - all these are collaged together to form composite images. What monuments will this moment produce? What kind of legacy will it leave behind? The images silently accumulate evidence and link the past, present and future.



Babu Eshwar Prasad
January 2013

                                         An Ode To Bosch, Wood Inlay, 16.5” x 26.5”

 

                                                  Open and Shut, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”

                           Bypassing the road, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                               Side-by-side, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                             Dystopia, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                     Anthill and the anvil, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 26” x 22”

                               Dwelling, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 28” x 54”

                                                  Yellow Earth, Acrylic on canvas, 72” x 48”

                                         Yellow Sky and Dragon Flies, Acrylic on canvas, 72” x 48”

                                Habitat, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 22” x 48”

                                Greed, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 18” x 22”

                               Growth, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 18” x 22”

                               I like the story as well as when you told it, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”

                                     Stills from Video Fast Forward to Zero, 2:38 Minutes, 2011

                                           Stills from Video Looped, PAL,3:18 minutes, 2012