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Prashant Pandey disrupts conventional reasoning when it comes to methods of viewing discarded objects in order to revive perspectives of everyday life. Pandey disrupts the utilitarian cycle of daily life with his use of recycled, reclaimed, and found materials including abandoned industrial containers, cigarette butts, cane garbage, urine, and blood. He also employs byproducts of human activity and wasted material in new ways. The distortion of structure slows the act of perception between the audience and the object. In this way, his art fulfils the poetic purpose of encouraging interpretation rather than recognising something that is already well-known and familiar.
Although his medium is always changing, his fundamental concern—a critical commentary on contemporary society—remains the same. With his sculpture "Gift," a mosaic of pouches filled with urine, sweat, tears, and formaldehyde, he condemns the slaughter of unwanted girl foetuses, who like urine and sweat are readily flushed out by the system in which they reside. The melting form in one of his nameless sculpture, which resembles a boy made of stale chocolate, represents lives in their never-ending process of becoming rather than existing.
Pandey's artworks are the outcome of much internal and external exploration. He typically employs a conceptual approach when dealing with memories, nostalgia, and life and death. In order to create the art he wants, he experiments with various materials. He is a well-known artist who was on the longlist for SKODA Prize 2011-12 longlist. Prashant has received the Lalit Kala Academy Award in 2009 and 2010 as well as the Bhupen Burman Award in the same year.