193 Gallery presents, Vocabularies of a Shifting Landscape, works by Pavan Kavitkar, engaging with landscapes that are neither utterly untouched nor destroyed, but continuously modified. Measured, divided, and rebuilt through human intervention, the works represent scapes as environments we inhabit and inherit. Rendered in watercolours, oil colours, and gouache, drawing on a strong technique based on Indian miniature painting and the Bengal School of Art, (emerged in 1905), the works foreground resistance to colonial academic realism. The details and anecdotes within his paintings form visual vocabularies of change, observed directly in his surroundings. They appear through buildings under construction, scaffolding, blue metal roofing sheets, barbed wire cutting through land, and irrigation systems extracting water for excessive farming. The lives and routines of migrant workers, villagers, and inhabitants unfold within these conditions. The exhibition brings together a new series of artworks depicting landscapes shaped by growing tension and changing patterns on land. His compositions depict intricate details of everyday life that exist between imagination and contemporary reality.
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