Tathagata Ghosh, born in 2002, is a visual artist from Barasat, West Bengal. He holds a BFA in Modelling and Sculpture from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, and is currently pursuing an MVA in Creative Sculpture at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. His practice explores emotional and philosophical responses to systems of control, scarcity, and collective experience. In 2023, he was selected for the Nandra Art Mentorship Programme and exhibited at the Bombay Art Society’s Annual Exhibition in Mumbai. Ghosh has received several awards in GCAC’s annual exhibitions and continues to develop a reflective, inquiry-driven practice.

Statement

My work negotiates the emotional and philosophical conflicts that arise from systems of domination, lack, and desire. I am interested in the quiet, frequently unexamined imbalances that compose our shared existence—how lack, refusal, and desire seed not only bodies, but memory, perception, and feeling. More than presenting resolutions or solutions, my work is a site for confrontation and scrutiny. It encourages audiences to challenge inherited forms and the morality of access, value, and survival. I want to bring what is easily made invisible—not with grand movements, but with the deliberate stacking of emotional charge and implication. The work is in a state of ongoing questioning, refusing closure, and instead highlighting the complexity of lived experience informed by inequity. In the end, I view art as a philosophical act: a means to give voice to the invisible, provoke complacency, and translate interior truths into public awareness.