Lone Runner’s Laboratory

Lone Runner’s Laboratory

Artists: Prabhakar Pachpute

If the terrain of the world is shaped as much by extraction as by memory, Lone Runner’s Laboratory unfolds a space where the material and psychological landscapes of labour, endurance and vulnerability converge. This exhibition navigates between rugged panoramas of altered earth and the interior worlds of those who live closest to its shifts, posing questions about resilience, agency, and the imprint of power on body and land.

Prabhakar Pachpute’s practice moves across sculpture, painting and installation to explore the socio-ecological impact of mining and labour while humanising the figures entwined within systems of control and exploitation. His immersive works combine symbolic forms with evocative gestures to probe the tension between survival and hope in environments shaped by extraction.

The exhibition invites visitors to sit with unresolved questions about responsibility, empathy and systemic conditions that shape lives and landscapes. Through a mix of stark forms and carefully constructed environments, it offers a reflective encounter with art that grapples with ethical urgency and emotional complexity.