Brobdingnag Paradox

Brobdingnag Paradox

Artists: Pratap Morey

If the city’s ever-expanding skyline feels both monumental and overwhelming, Brobdingnag Paradox collapses that feeling into a visual tension between scale and perception. This exhibition uses photographic collage to explore how continuous cycles of construction, compression and urban growth shape not only the landscape but our psychological experience of the city. Its title evokes the enormous yet paradoxical nature of modern metropolitan life, where vastness and minuteness coexist in a single view.

Pratap Morey’s practice constructs large-scale photographic collages based on sustained observation of construction sites across Mumbai. By playing with scale—turning skyscrapers into palm-sized fragments and elevating tiny elements—the works reflect a city that feels both grand and fragmented. Through repetition, surface patterning and spatial compression, Morey reveals the seductive allure and hidden instability embedded in architectural forms.

The exhibition offers a fresh way to see urban space, inviting viewers to reconsider how construction, repetition and visual density shape our sense of place. Visitors are encouraged to look closely and discover how abstraction becomes a method of understanding contemporary city life, where movement does not always equal progression.