About Artist

Debi Prasad Bhunia’s practice critically engages with the intersections of labour, migration, material history, and the socio-political forces that shape urban landscapes. Working across sculpture, installation, and mixed media, he uses historically charged materials terracotta, stone, iron, bamboo, and soil to narrate the often-erased stories of marginalized workers who build cities but are excluded from their legacy.

Bhunia’s work reflects on the erosion of traditional craftsmanship amid industrialization, tracing how skilled artisanal knowledge is displaced or repurposed through mechanized labour systems. Fragmented structures and negative space within his compositions evoke absence, dislocation, and the fragile conditions of survival embedded in urban growth.

Drawing parallels between informal settlements and natural architectures like termite mounds and ant colonies, Bhunia explores how migrant communities mirror organic systems resilient, adaptive, and continually reshaped by external forces. His practice becomes a meditation on endurance, impermanence, and reclamation, positioning the labouring body not as peripheral, but as central to the narratives of progress, memory, and belonging.