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EARLY YEARS

Bibhu Nath was born in Cuttack, India, in 1990 in a rural village of Gunupur. Bibhu’s father, Rabindranath Nath is a village branch post-master and an art lover himself. His mother Puspalata Nath is a kind of artist, specifically a wall painter, performing at the time of durga puja and other festivals. The village has many cultural and natural heritages, where he grew up. Bibhu Nath trained in sculpture at the BK college of Art & Crafts, Bhubaneswar, during the year 2007-11, but found him increasingly attracted to the language of installation, video and story wring. From 2011-12, he worked at the Rastriya Lalitkala Kendra in Bhubaneswar. In that year he interacted closely with colleagues, senior artist, writer and journalist to hone his knowledge about art. After that, he went for an MFA in sculpture during 2012-14 at the College of Art, New Delhi. Those years he started his experiment with sculptural installation and making videos. Bibhu currently lives and works in Delhi.

ART PRACTICE

Bibhu Nath’s early artistic career was acquainted with studied nature, culture and social activities. Which force always instigated him to dig the globally socio- environmental issues and carried a conceptual art practice. Now Bibhu’s oeuvre has been defined mostly by sculptural installations, site-specific and collaborative works. Experimenting with innumerable materials and medium his installations or assemblages use quotidian objects juxtaposed in an attempt to open up new possibilities of meaning. He often uses simple, repetitive, material movements and video works that explore aspects of temporality The work of idea playing out the fictional aspect in creating a sense of ‘drama’ or a ‘spectacle’ about the day to day socio-political, environmental and cultural activities, which Bibhu try to say in a vivid metaphoric language through his contemporary life and daily negotiation with this metro city. The city provides the backdrop for his recordings of the changing culture, environment and social activities of human life. Those evaluate and divulge the nostalgic form, truth and violence of pollution, dialogue of diameter and background nature of a rustic nature. Sometimes it may behave dramatically or disgracefully. The main sources of his inspiration are from village life and its cultural oeuvre. His practice always derived from different context of novel, poem, short stories and folktales. Sometimes he also collects fictional ideas to narrate his art works from the people while interact through his art work or talking personally with them. Recently Bibhu’s experience in an international residency at Rajasthan, make a beautiful large-scale site-specific collaborative art work (public toilet II, 2016) to create a sane socio-environmental life with the village communities and children of the rural area of Jodhpur. In Mumbai his concerns and themes evolved around the natural sources of water- their growing depletion and the proliferation of corporate ownership and covering the valuable elements of universe as well. The artist oeuvre defined a sculptural installation (Na-Real) and another site-specific work (Shadow of Waters, 2016) using hundreds of discarded plastic bottles during a residency at thane.