Global Discourse

Global Discourse

Date: 12 July 2025 | 13 July 2025
Time: 2:30 PM | 5:30 PM
Location: KNMA, Saket

About the event

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This workshop invites participants to engage with the world not through direct representation, but through fragments of memory, experience, and imagination. Titled Global Discourse, the session reflects the ongoing exploration of how layered narratives can speak to the world we inhabit today. Participants will begin constructing imagined geographies through the art of map-making that showcase their creative landscapes.

On the first day, participants will prepare textured surfaces using different media, laying the physical and conceptual foundation for their works. Using materials and methods from traditional and contemporary practices, this surface will become a miniature terrain where stories can emerge.

On the second day, the workshop will begin to build upon these surfaces, juxtaposing images, forms, and textures to create a map. These are not maps in the literal sense, but narrative fields: spaces where borders dissolve, memory overlaps with imagination, and the global converses with the personal. The process encourages a slowing down and allows hidden connections to surface.

The workshop is both meditative and expressive - an invitation to construct meaning through material, memory, and narrative.

Participants are encouraged to bring any archival image or object that resonates with their memories.

While you are here, visit ‘Of Worlds Within Worlds – Gulammohammed Sheikh, A Retrospective’ at KNMA Saket, where texture and storytelling redefine artistic expression. Let their works inspire yours!

Artist Bio

Pratul Dash is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose thought-provoking practice spans painting, video, installation, performance, photography, and earth art. Rooted in conceptual inquiry, his work explores urgent concerns around migration, urban transformation, environmental degradation, and the fragile balance of our ecosystems.

Over the years, Pratul has presented several solo exhibitions in India and internationally—most recently A Bend in the River (Latitude 28 at Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2023), In the Twilight Zone (Anant Art Gallery, 2018), and Metropolitan Matrix (Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, 2010), among others. He is a recipient of the prestigious Inlaks Foundation Award, which supported his studies in Italy.

His works have been exhibited at major institutions and curated by leading voices in the art world, including Jana Shakti (NGMA, curated by Dr. Alka Pande, 2023), City Tales (KNMA, 2020), Enactments and Each Passing Day (KNMA, 2016), and Aesthetic Bind: Phantomata (Chemould Prescott Road, curated by Geeta Kapur, 2013).

Pratul’s works are part of renowned collections such as the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Devi Art Foundation, and several corporate and private collections across India and abroad.

He currently lives and works in New Delhi.