Kumartuli Ball-Maker

The gallery featured three artworks - a slide projection (Kumartuli Printer), an animation clip (Kumartuli Ball-Maker), and a diptych (Kumartuli Diptych), dedicated to Kumartuli, a workshop in north Kolkata where Soi began his ongoing series on Labour. Soi dedicated this installation to Kumartuli where craftsmen specialised in making religious clay effigies had abandoned their skills in search of employment. Resulted from Soi's observations, this work presented a short animated clip of a labourer at work in Kumartuli.

The work was featured as part of the exhibition 'Notes on Labour' by Praneet Soi. The exhibition was curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and showcased Soi's works created over periods of extensive engagement with artisans in Kolkata, Srinagar, and Guangzhou in China.