In her images and installations, Prajakta Potnis shows a deep interest in the similarities and the differences of human skin and urban walls. She wants to stir up curiosity for both boundaries between the inner and the outer space of human nature and urban buildings. Living in a city demands both: a tough outer shell, a shield in order to deal with life’s challenges as well as literal, material walls shelter. It denotes a metaphoric separation amongst the people and a real one in the landscape of a city. Like the human the skin, walls within a city stand at the boundary between exterior and interior space. Both are vulnerable. For this reason, Prajakta Potnis pays great attention to scars, wounds and disruptions, opening up a new perspective of familiar surroundings for her viewers. She started by analyzing her own skin and proceeded to scrutinize the function and texture of real walls. Walls, which circumscribe and protect the inner space, begin in her canvases to crumble and marks a change, creating a different, new space. Within this process, Prajakta leads us into a new, sometimes startling, world.

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