Potnis began researching the case and found that it was common for these substances to lie dormant in the body for long periods of times. It got her thinking about workers in toxic environments — an exploration she highlights in her latest solo at a Colaba gallery, marking a return to Mumbai after four years.

11:23pm, Pencil, acrylic and emulsion on  lanaquarelle paper,  60 x 42 inches, 2019-20

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Aptly titled A Body Without Organs, a concept put forth by French philosopher and psychoanalyst Gilles Deleuse and Félix Guattari, the show comprises six LED light boxes, six large paper works, as well as an installation, video and slide projection. One of her many mediums include X-Ray film, the process of working with which she describes as "photographic", as it involved putting random objects like steel and wool under the scanner, much like exposing film roll. "I'm looking at the larger perspective of how the body becomes helpless through a capitalistic system, because you have no control over what is being absorbed by it," she adds.

Prajakta Potnis

Even though she was part of shows in Germany and Sharjah in the recent past, Potnis says that this exhibition feels like a blank canvas for her. "I'm starting afresh and am curious to know what people think of it," she says. But she does want attendees to take away a glimmer of hope; the body, after all, carries "a strength of rebuilding" too.

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