Shelf Life II

Prashant Pandey reawakens perception of everyday life by defying conventional logic when it comes to ways of seeing discarded objects. Through his use of found, recycled and reclaimed material like sweet lime bagasse, marble blast-stones and chunks of road tar, Pandey uses by-products of human activity in innovative ways, interrupting the utilitarian cycle of everyday life.

This distortion of form slows down the act of perception between the audience and the object. In this manner, his work serves the poetic function of promoting seeing, as opposed to recognizing something that is already familiar and known.