Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Persistent Circuits
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Unidentified Photographic Object # 1, 2019
Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya are based in Kolkata, India and work together as an artist duo, primarily with photography and video. Madhuban studied English Literature and holds a Ph.D in Cultural Studies. Manas studied cinematography after completing his M.A. in Comparative Literature. Their work engages with time and memory, transience and detritus, notions of the archive and the catalogue, the original and the copy, employing and often combining documentary and fiction, analogue and digital, and images made and found. Some of their key interests are the small histories of photography and cinema, industry and labour, the city and the urban imaginary.
They received the Skoda Breakthrough Artist Award for the best debut solo show in India in 2011. Other awards include the Embarrat Award from Museo Trepat, Tarrega, Spain and a grant from Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy as part of the GD4PhotoArt Award 2014-15. In 2017 they were awarded a Research Residency in Switzerland by Pro-Helvetia.
Some of their recent solo and group exhibitions include Afterimage (2015) at PHOTOINK, Last Evenings on Earth (2019) at PHOTOINK, Come Away (2021) at PHOTOINK and Until at the End of the World (2023) at PHOTOINK Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India in the San Jose Museum of Art, California and Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, USA; and The Great Machine II at Museo Trepat, Spain; GD4PhotoArt/Foto Industria at MAST, Bologna; PHOTOINK at Gallery SKE, Bangalore; and Imagined Futures, Reconstructed Pasts at Bikaner House/Anant Art, New Delhi, India.
... (after Albert Camus and Werner Herzog), 2005
Set of 3 pigment prints
1: 10 × 14 in (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
2: 25 × 35 in (63.5 × 88.9 cm)
3: 55 × 77 in (139.7 × 195.6 cm)
4 + 2 APs
Detail from '... (after Albert Camus and Werner Herzog)'
Detail from '... (after Albert Camus and Werner Herzog)'
Detail from '... (after Albert Camus and Werner Herzog)'
Untitled # 3, 2009-2016
from the series, Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
Set of 5 pigment prints
2 works: 10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
3 works: 16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
Untitled # 2, 2009-2016
from the series, Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
Set of 6 pigment prints
2 works: 8 × 12 in (20.3 × 30.5 cm)
4 works: 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
Untitled # 1, 2009-2016
from the series, Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
Set of 3 pigment prints
Each photograph is 30 × 20 in (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
People Who Do Not Exist, 2021-2023
Pigment print of AI-generated images
64.5 × 86 in (163.8 × 218.4 cm)
Ed of 3
Detail from ‘People Who Do Not Exist, 2021-2023’
Detail from ‘People Who Do Not Exist, 2021-2023’
Detail from ‘People Who Do Not Exist, 2021-2023’
The Long Goodbye, 2019 - 2022
Set of 84 pigment prints
46.5 × 131 in (118.1 × 332.7 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
Detail from 'The Long Goodbye'
Detail from 'The Long Goodbye'
Detail from 'The Long Goodbye'
Archetypes Hold a Reunion, 2019 - 2022
Set of 77 pigment prints
53.25 × 110.3 in (135.2 × 280.2 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
Detail from 'Archetypes Hold a Reunion', 2019 - 2022
Detail from 'Archetypes Hold a Reunion', 2019 - 2022
Detail from 'Archetypes Hold a Reunion', 2019 - 2022
Detail from 'Archetypes Hold a Reunion', 2019 - 2022
Intimations of an Apocalypse, 2019 - 2022
Set of 101 pigment prints
67 × 112.5 in (170.2 × 285.7 cm)
Ed of 5 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2019
from the series, Concrete Poems
Pigment print
58 × 26 in (147.3 × 66 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2019
from the series, Concrete Poems
Pigment print
58 × 26 in (147.3 × 66 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2019
from the series, Concrete Poems
Pigment print
58 × 26 in (147.3 × 66 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2019
from the series, Concrete Poems
Pigment print
114 × 112 in (289.5 × 284.5 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2019
from the series, Concrete Poems
Pigment print
54 × 94.5 in (137.1 × 240 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
The Keymaker's Sabbatical, 2019
Pigment prints
(set of 8 works)
5 works: 16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
3 works: 8 × 12 in (20.3 × 30.5 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Unidentified Photographic Object # 1, 2019
Pigment print
45.4 × 41 in (115.3 × 104.1 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Unidentified Photographic Object # 2, 2019
Pigment print
57 × 58.6 in (144.8 × 148.8 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Industry, 2014
1/3
3-channel, synchronised HD video
B&W, looped
5 mins 12 secs
Ed of 5
Industry, 2014
2/3
3-channel, synchronised HD video
B&W, looped
5 mins 12 secs
Ed of 5
Industry, 2014
3/3
3-channel, synchronised HD video
B&W, looped
5 mins 12 secs
Ed of 5
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, Mount Analogue, 2013
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 30 in (25.4 × 76.2 cm)
16 × 48 in (40.6 × 122 cm)
24 × 72 in (60.9 × 183 cm)
Ed of 8
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
15 × 10 in (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
24 × 16 in (61 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, 2013, from the series, Mount Analogue
Pigment print
3 sizes available
15 × 10 in (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
24 × 16 in (61 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
Uneditioned
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Temp Mort
Pigment prints
(set of 6 photographs)
Each photograph is 10 × 13.5 in (25.4 × 34.3 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment prints
(set of 3 photographs)
Each photograph is 10 × 15 in (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
Ed of 8
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, from the series, The Archaeology of Absence
Pigment print
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Routes, 2009
Pigment prints
(set of 14 photographs)
Each photograph is 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Light, For Example, 2009
Pigment prints
(set of 14 photographs)
Each photograph is 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs