Martand Khosla (b. 1975, New Delhi)
Trained at the Architectural Association (UK), Khosla is an artist and an architect. Along with his solo exhibitions at Nature Morte ((2022 and 2019), 2016); Seven Art Gallery (2012) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (2012) Khosla has shown in group exhibitions in India and internationally since 2005. He has won several awards for both his practices including India Today’s New Media Artist (2019-2020), Architectural Digests ‘Top 50 Designers’ )2014) and winner of Reclaiming the Streets, Rotterdam, NL (2013). The artist lives in New Delhi.
Khosla explores the rapid emergence of urban centres. Through sculpture, installation and works on paper, he responds to the causes and effects of hyper-urbanization through the lens of capital, labor, migration, law, health and governance.
The large double disc work began as a series in the early days of the Gaza conflict and the changing landscape due to incessant bombing. The cloud cluster is from an older series of works that explores ideas of urban clusters, neighborhoods, mohallas and at the same time, clouds and molecules that exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium, somewhere between order and chaos, destruction and emergence and the written and the oral cultures of our cities.