M. Pravat

M. Pravat was born in 1972 in Kolkata, India. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in painting in 2002 and his Master’s in 2004, both granted by the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University, Baroda. M. Pravat’s art practice examines architectural forms and materials through a fractured lens, using paintings and installations. He believes that our lives are unquestionably shaped by the built environments we inhabit. Along with images and materials, architecture plays a pivotal role in the formation of our sensibilities, and in shaping our experiences and understanding of space and form.

His practice is deeply embedded in the manifestations and imaginations of architectural spaces, where he attempts to shed the representational familiarity associated with our built environments, and in doing so, finds himself appropriating, redistributing, and reconfiguring the relationship between images and materials. His ongoing interests in architectural forms emerge from the lived experience of being in a city that is in a constant state of flux where he observes how there is a continuous negotiation between its master plan, its popular aspirations, and the everyday experiences of it, with the flux being both tangible and intangible.

M. Pravat lives and works in New Delhi, India.

Submitted by VHC | Vida Heydari Contemporary