PRAJAKTA POTNIS, Rivers in the Sky IX, chalk colors on slate stone, 17.8 × 0.5 × 12 cm. Courtesy Project 88, Mumbai.
Mumbai-based artist Prajakta Potnis excavates the uncanny from everyday domesticity, dwelling between the intimate universe of the individual and the outside world. Her solo exhibition “Where should the birds fly after the last sky?,” titled after Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s reflections on a shrinking world, features a series of paintings on slate stone that attempt to visualize intangible states such as trauma through careful interplays of medium, texture, and density.
