Abir Karmakar's sophisticated paintings create a stimulating interplay between three and two dimensions. His ingenious depiction and placement of commonplace objects within domestic interiors, and his ability to capture the experience of real and fluorescent light, create spaces that hover between fact and fiction.

Karmakar first achieved recognition through paintings focused on human figures but has in recent years preferred interiors emptied of people which hint at human presence through traces of their activities. While these new paintings remain ambivalent and enigmatic, they also build a specific record of a single place and time which is also a chronicle of a family's journey and, through the typicality of that journey, becomes a commentary on larger historical processes.