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The banality of celebrating women and cooking and art: What a Hyderabad exhibition gets wrong
Firstpost‘Cooking Up A Storm: Her Sojourn’ must be the most offensive, anti-feminist art exhibition of recent times. Koeli Mukherjee Ghose, a woman artist herself, brings together 12 women artists, including herself, from Hyderabad for a show on cooking. “While many of us working ladies cooked and cooked during the pandemic with pleasure or pain,” she writes, “it was necessary to take the creative car back on the road.” The dichotomy Mukherjee Ghose creates between cooking and creativity re-introduces the sexist, patriarchal idea that cooking is not creative, it is women’s work and it does not really matter. Screengrab from Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad virtual exhibition, via art.kunstmatrix.com To me, the absence from this show of the most interesting woman artist in Hyderabad is telling. Screengrab from Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad virtual exhibition, via art.kunstmatrix.com Cooking itself involves labour, sweat, repetitive drudgery and deep pleasure.
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