An ongoing exhibition in Delhi has 19 artists exploring their individual engagement with Prussian Blue. The uniqueness of the colour is relatively unknown, as is its link with science and its role in transforming the course of art. It was by accident that two German alchemists discovered Prussian Blue in a Berlin laboratory. Thus, the world’s first synthetic pigment was born, and it became an instant sensation.
Prajakta Potnis’ lightbox ‘Capsule 2’ is a photograph of a constructed landscape shot in a temperature-controlled environment of a refrigerator. Her works attempt to echo a sense of a tipping point of no return, of fading landscapes and toxic residues. “The cold blue light within the three installations plays an active agent in subliminally evoking a sense of alienness and anxiety,” Potnis elaborated.
