The central subject in Prasanta Sahu’s paintings is his own body. Although the artist refrains from conventional self-portraits, he uses his own physical form to initiate a scrutiny into the fragility of the human body. It becomes a metaphor for the obsessions related with youth, sex, physical transformation, and the temporal existence of things.

The artist works from self-edited photographic reference which are modified and reworked upon the canvas. Painting all these details becomes a mind locking exercise, a process of cataloguing and identification. The final object becomes a repeated form— The original image transforms into a visual survey- oriented documentation, which may look like a geographical map or even a piece of fabric. It breaks into a floating mass of strokes and in a close-up view constructs an image within itself which is at the same time macro and micro. The artist calls this ‘integrated –disintegration’.