
This spotlight on Sosa Joseph is the third in a series of four spotlights on Painters in the gallery's program, by London-based curator and writer Grant Watson.
Abir Karmakar’s photorealist paintings are ruminations on identity, memory, and place. His life-size, site-specific compositions of domestic interiors blur the lines between real and imagined space. The artist’s carefully researched and meticulously rendered depictions of domestic items highlight social and temporal idiosyncrasies of modern India and its legacy of colonization by the British Raj.