Sarban Chowdhury is a ceramist, designer & educator from India. His practice of working with clay is an everyday learning process where he relates to coping with minor and major failures in life. Ceramics as a medium teaches him to gaze at life from a different standpoint. Sarban's research explores around ecosystem centric values, geopolitical influences and psychoanalysis of the human mind in relation to their surrounding factors. Everything that he examines, observes and experiences around him somehow seeps into his subconscious mind and eventually reflects in his work.
His work presents a visceral understanding of our contemporary world, through the exploration of a wide range of subjects pertaining to personal and collective experience. Fluent in the language of ceramic sculpture as well as painting, he explores form and surface, pushing the limits of the medium through a deliberate layering of constituted and invented meanings. He employs text and visual metaphors in order to extend his satirical commentary on the status of society and the environment, investigating human behaviour within these scenarios. He captures the mundane and complex, often through an autobiographical lens; his worldview embraces death and decay, beauty and vulnerability, anxiety and alienation, acceptance and resilience as they flow with a stream of consciousness through his creations, inviting viewers to become witness to the contradictions of life through his work.