Squaring Circles (2016-2024). Upholstery vinyl, steel pins. Dimensions as shown: 10x10ft

Taken In, Taking On (2020-2024). Glass beads, nylon thread, powder-coated steel. Each module 6x6ft.

Taken In, Taking On (2020-2024).

Exhibition view.

Adorn, around #1-5 (2020-2024). Glass beads, nylon thread, wood, paint. Various dimensions.

Adorn, around #1 (detail).

Adorn, around #5 (detail).

Adorn, around #4 (detail).

Adorn, around #3 (detail).

Adorn, around #1 (detail).

Adorn, around (detail).

Layering (2019-2024). Upholstery vinyl, ink, screws, tape, glass beads, nylon thread. Approximately 6x9ft.

Layering (detail).

By chance, choice, plan or force (2022-2024). Glass beads, nylon thread. Dimensions variable.

By chance, choice, plan or force (detail).

Taken In, Taking On (detail).

Squaring Circles (detail).

Squaring Circles (alternate / excerpt).

By chance, choice, plan or force

Solo Exhibition «By chance, choice, plan or force»
23 November – 21 December, 2024
Patel Brown Gallery, 372 rue Ste-Catherine O, #410, Montréal

Opening Saturday, November 23rd, 3 – 6pm
Artist Talk Saturday, December 14th at 2 pm.

For her first solo exhibition with Patel Brown, Surabhi Ghosh presents a network of five lyrical works illustrating her long-standing dedication to incremental, monochromatic patterns that challenge our perception and emphasize the precarity of the systems that surround us. Working with principles of weight, volume, and density, the artist forms a body of site-responsive installations that explore the pliability of socially-determined borders and hierarchies. Applying these forces into simple gestures, Ghosh ushers an idiosyncratic metaphysics into the gallery space. In so doing, her versatile patterns offer audiences concurrent avenues for interpretation and calls them in to participate.

excerpt from the exhibition text by Danica Pinteric

Photograpy: Jean-Michael Seminaro