The Bahurupi becomes a recurring presence: shape-shifter, performer, mirror in the works of Atanu Pramanik. It stands in for the many selves we inhabit and the faces we wear in different spaces.

His portrayal of Shiva and Kali emerges as emotional metaphors—tension, power, care, duality.

Pramanik pulls from visual traditions—miniature painting, folk motifs—but the result feels untraditional, contemporary, even subversive. His use of colour and form is assertive. It holds the intimacy of someone looking inward and the clarity of someone paying close attention to the world around him.

These works blend memory, observation, and imagination into forms that feel dreamlike and unfamiliar. They are more about holding space for what remains unresolved: memory that flickers, identities that shift, histories that haven’t fully settled.

View his works here.