Solo show by Josh P.S.

‘Missing Links,’ solo show by Delhi-based artist Josh P.S. was held at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai in August, 2009.

His first solo in Mumbai, the exhibition included ten large scale oils on canvas. The paintings of Josh P.S. explore the relationship of images to both history and memory, as well as how they function in the construction of identities, both personal and collective.

By recycling old photographs from India’s Colonial Era and of key events in the formation of the independent nation, Josh renders physical legendary moments that seem both distant and mythic. The large, precisely detailed paintings, with their monochrome palette, create the effect of an oscillating and ghostly image that the viewer struggles to decipher. These paintings question the intersection of art and politics and ask if there may be “missing links” between our contemporary reality and the historical events that have shaped it.

Josh P.S. was born in 1974 in Kerala, where he received his BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum. He received his MFA in Painting in 1999 from Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, where he continues to live and work. He has held solo exhibitions of his work at Nature Morte in New Delhi (2007) and Bose Pacia in Calcutta (2008). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at Vadhera Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Rabindra Bhavan, Art Inc. and Travancore House in New Delhi and Avanthay Contemporary in Zurich.