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“The paintings of Jagannath Panda…are illuminated by their teasing play between the erasure of time and its insistent presence. In the works, moral propositions suggest themselves, by the individual as witness/inhabitant of these spaces, as rightful legatee of the resources of water, earth, air to a state of somewhat cynical spectatorship…Jagannath has engaged in a circuitous journey, from a rooted Vaishnav culture in Puri where his father was a... “The paintings of Jagannath Panda…are illuminated by their teasing play between the erasure of time and its insistent presence. In the works, moral propositions suggest themselves, by the individual as witness/inhabitant of these spaces, as rightful legatee of the resources of water, earth, air to a state of somewhat cynical spectatorship…Jagannath has engaged in a circuitous journey, from a rooted Vaishnav culture in Puri where his father was a priest at the Jagannath temple, to a residency in Japan and a scholarship in the U.K. to his life as an artist living on the faultlines of private and commercial enterprise between Delhi and Gurgaon. The images are, as is in the most interesting art, inconclusive…The pleasure in the viewing of these works is in the pungent aftertaste of the unexpected combination of seemingly everyday elements rendered with a touch that is masterly playful and light” (Gayatri Sinha, “Gods, humans and the joy of it all”, The Hindu, October 21, 2005).

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