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Born into a family of priests in a coastal town in Orissa, Jagannath Panda has lived in the cities of Vadodara, Fukuoka and London while studying painting, and later settled in New Delhi, India’s political capital, and one of its most rapidly expanding cities. Drawing heavily from these personal and diametrically opposed experiences of traditional rural life and the uneasy urbanization of large cities, Panda’s body of work speaks of the... Born into a family of priests in a coastal town in Orissa, Jagannath Panda has lived in the cities of Vadodara, Fukuoka and London while studying painting, and later settled in New Delhi, India’s political capital, and one of its most rapidly expanding cities. Drawing heavily from these personal and diametrically opposed experiences of traditional rural life and the uneasy urbanization of large cities, Panda’s body of work speaks of the dichotomies and contradictions of day-to-day life in developing nations, and the divides between town and city, nature and settlement, and traditional and contemporary that they illuminate.

“Panda’s encounters have allowed him to develop a layered aesthetic which combines visual considerations (such as notions of beauty and visual pleasure) and social-psychological commentaries. Panda’s motifs often allude to the underlying forces that drive the social mechanism…once decoded [his works] unravel the dichotomies the artist continues to grapple with, between the dictates contained within his dogmatic religious upbringing and his developed and learned critical conscience. An assortment of images addresses sophisticated themes of frustrated desires, unanswered questions, socio-economic injustices and inequalities” (Deeksha Nath, Private/Corporate IV: A Dialogue exhibition catalogue, DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, 2007, p. 49).

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