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An apple, a pair of pincers, and a rummer occupy a common space in this work. They are neither to scale, nor follow the law of gravity as they are suspended in a void. It is their relation to the space they occupy and with each other that makes the work riveting. Prabhakar Barwe maintained that ‘a playful relationship exists between form and space. Indeed, what is form in one context becomes space in another and vice versa.’ As evident, it’s not just these forms that the artists wants his viewers to examine, but the form that the space assumes when these three objects are inserted in it. That was the essence of his practice which he so succinctly explored in works such as these.