GOUTAM GHOSH

"After a mild earthquake a leakage was found at the base of the mountain. Spectacular purple smokes and gases are coming out through a tiny crack in the foot of the sinking hill. Suddenly a hot barren land shadowed over the purple smoke - people from all over came to visit the smoke and thus a purple park has formed at the base of the leakage mountain.

A study of 'gas' has been conducted immediately - a dancing giant known as Dhabo, has been found in the presence of mithenium and phosphorus. Expansion of Dhabo is probabilistic and rhythmic, which fades into multitudes, on its freewheels and numerous dancing evils. A gas erupted through the cracks in the mountain, spreading evenly across all the plains, another uninterrupted 200 kilometres has become sites for many walking.

Under the purple fume one might begin to hallucinate and illuminate the plain. Don't worry, it's the efects of methodical (cultural) calculation, tricky measurements of diferent narrations and geometrical puzzles that help to manipulate the space over patterns. Automatised movements on the surface (of the earth) left the fatland into squeezes, abruptness and stretches are often recognised locally as forbidding, forgetting, vandalised and calm."

Goutam Ghosh, August 2021

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Goutam Ghosh (b. 1979, Nabadwip, India in 1979) lives and works between Jharkhand, Bhuj and Kolkata, India, or wherever he may be in the desert. Ghosh received his MA from Oslo Academy of Fine Arts, Norway.

Recent exhibitions include “Gypsum”, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo; “Triangel”, Haugar Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg; “The Kalpana, In desert times”, as The Kaplana, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg; “Reptiles”, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; “Soft Water Hard Stone”, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York; and “House of Commons”, the 11th Momentum Biennial, Moss. Ghosh’s work is held in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA.

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