Pranay Dutta's (b.1993, Kolkata, India. Lives and works between Kolkata and Delhi) practice
incorporates painting, video, computer-generated imagery, and drawings to examine the complex
relationship between terrestrial species and landscapes. In haunting images, devoid of human life
and bleached of colour, Dutta strives to reveal or accentuate the forces that mould landscapes. His
apocalyptic scenes point to these visible and invisible phenomena — geological or climatic events,
colonisation, the extraction of resources — that deplete ecologies and threaten future renewal. In
their rawness, the works expose the tension between our exploitative processes and the rhetoric of
environment stewardship and care.