"Mashrabiya, Praneet Sol's third solo at Experimenter.

MASHRABIYA

PRANEET SOI

Inauguration- 13 september 2025, 6.00pm.

Date - AUG 13- SEP 26, 2025

Venue- EXPERIMENTER-HINDUSTAN ROAD, KOLKATA

"Mashrabiya, Praneet Sol's third solo at Experimenter, brings together an expansive body of work spanning a decade 'Mashrabiya', a latticed, ornate-patterned, wooden window found in medieval islamic architecture is often used as a metaphor in Sol's multidimensional and geographically spread practice. Drawing from fraught social, political, economic contexts, historical research, personal encounters, architectural details and a growing archive of media imagery, this exhibition offers a lens into Sol's experimentation with a range of image-tropes and their representation.

"Mashrabiya' brings together the varied strands of Sol's ongoing immersion (since 2014) with craftspeople in the valley city of Srinagar, his engagement with traditional porcelain craftspeople in the Southern Chinese city of Guangzhou (2015); and his own studio-based practice in Amsterdam. Such immersion are important to Sol's praxis. They become cites where knowledge is gained, experiences shared and friendships are formed, underscoring how his perspective is sutured by the thread of personal experiences and multiplicity of thought.

Through painting, sculpture, and painted papier mache and porcelain tiles, the exhibition investigates the notion of a migration of form through techniques such as collage, fragmentation and deconstruction. The process builds a lexicon of intricate motifs and patterns and a tactile materiality characterised by the primacy of hand. Intervening in and subverting existing hierarchies, this exhibition follows Sol's interest in constructing a personal framework through which an alternate view of the landscape and its interpretation is possible.

Praneet SoI (b. 1971; Kolkata, India) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.