Emerging as one of the most prominent Indian artists living abroad, Praneet Soi is participating in the first Indian National Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia. Working in a wide range of media, spanning painting, drawing, collage, text, audio-visual assemblages and intertwining the languages of visual culture, literature, cinema, and architecture, Soi suggests possibilities for imagining a new human condition, marked by intensified forces of modernity and progress. This publication is presented as a collection of four booklets; the first containing a selection of imagery from his archive, the second his drawings, the third his paintings and site specific projects, the fourth texts by Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Nertherlands and Ranjit Hoskote, curator of the Indian Pavilion.
