Sarban Chowdhury is a ceramist, designer & educator from India. His practice of working with clay is an everyday learning process where he relates to coping with minor and major failures in life. Ceramics as a medium teaches him to gaze at life from a different standpoint. Sarban's research explores around ecosystem centric values, geopolitical influences and psychoanalysis of the convoluted human mind trying to investigate the meaning of identity and existence. Everything that he examines, observes and experiences around him somehow seeps into his subconscious mind and eventually reflects in his work.

Sarban’s work presents a visceral understanding of our contemporary world, through the exploration of a wide range of subjects pertaining to personal and collective experience. Through his practice, he explores form and surface, pushing the limits of the medium through a deliberate layering of constituted and invented meanings. He employs text and visual metaphors in order to extend his satirical commentary on the status of society and the influences that reshapes the reality of it. He captures the mundane and complex, often through an autobiographical lens; his worldview embraces death and decay, beauty and vulnerability, anxiety and alienation, sexuality and borderlines, desires and interdictions, acceptance and resilience as they flow with a stream of consciousness through his creations, inviting viewers to curiously witness the contradictions of life through his visual language.