Madhu Das (India) lives and works in Mumbai. His artistic practice incorporate multi-disciplinary expressions; focuses on investigating social and political issues by getting close to landscape, both physically and psychologically, the work traverses between fact and fiction, dealing with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that the two are woven together in the space.
His work has involved the spaces in both a narrative sense and as a site of memory to re-narrate historical events as a way of plotting connections between the particular and the universal. Subjectively, he adapt aspects of material culture as well as methods from anthropology, allegorical fiction as conceptual tool, which later extends to the space of the viewer, from the point of a storyteller, exploring exciting linguistic devices and imagery with a sense of irony and paradox.Awaaz Do- A Call to Resistance” A Sahmat curated by Ram Rahman in Times Lit Fest at the Mehboob Studios, Mumbai, India (2015). He has been an artist in residence at the HH Art Spaces, Goa, India (2017) ;TIFA Working Studio’s Artel Residency, Pune, India (2016); T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects, Bangalore (2015); Sarai Reader 09, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India (2013); Sethu Residency, Theertha International Artists Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2010) and Sandarbh Artist Residency , India (2009). Das was the recipient of the Inlaks Fine Arts Award in 2015 and shortlisted for Emerging Indian Visual Artists by Delfina Foundation, UK, in 2014.Â