On the Brink | A solo exhibition by Martand Khosla

Dates & Venue:
27 August – 3 October 2022
The Dhan Mill, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India

Nature Morte presented a solo exhibition of new works by Martand Khosla, his third solo show with the gallery and his first time in the Dhan Mill space. As both an artist and a practicing architect, Khosla is deeply involved with the built environment, and he sees his artistic practice as an exploration of the continual regeneration of cities. There is a constant, churning violence to urban environments, one that is both historical and organic, perpetuated by politics, capitalism, migration, and happenstance. In Khosla’s sculptures, paintings, drawings, and video works he attempts to capture these processes of turbulence, picturing their physical, temporal and psychological manifestations. His viewpoints are both macro and micro-scopic, his intended results neither utopian nor dystopian but realistic. While his works may have formal similarities with both Surrealism and Science Fiction, Khosla’s artistic output in fact illustrates how much the languages developed by these two disciplines have come to dominate our contemporary urban realities.

Martand Khosla
Installation View, On the Brink, 2022

Martand Khosla
Installation View, On the Brink, 2022

About the artist
Martand Khosla (b. 1975, New Delhi, India) obtained his Associate of Arts Diploma at the Architectural Association, London in 2001. He was given the India Today Art New Media Artist Award 2019–2020 for his solo show 1:2500 (One is to Twenty Five Hundred) at Nature Morte, New Delhi. Khosla’s other solo exhibitions include MesoDomain, Nature Morte (2016); City of Hope I, Seven Art Gallery, New Delhi (2012); and City of Hope II, School of Art & Aesthetics, Jawahar Nehru University, New Delhi (2012). Khosla has also widely exhibited as part of group exhibitions at Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2019); Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2018); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India (2016) among others. Khosla lives and works in New Delhi.