How gender-equal is a marriage?
3 years, 9 months ago

How gender-equal is a marriage?

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In continuation of International Women’s Day, Mumbai-based creative art space Method has launched an offline exhibition with work that raises questions about societal expectations and institutions, their purpose, and how they impact women. The digital artworks, Pati, Patni Aur Woke, are by an anonymous artist from Mumbai who goes by the alias Smish Designs. Society places extra significance on the role of ‘wife’ than they do of ‘husband’ and dressing the part is par for the course, the artist explains. My new body of work is a celebration of this ‘coming of age’ as well as a direct condemnation of the various ways in which women are disadvantaged within wedlock,” the artist says.

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An anonymous artist is calling out regressive practices within marriage
3 years, 5 months ago

An anonymous artist is calling out regressive practices within marriage

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Smish Designs won’t use her real name, but she doesn’t hold back. The 33-year-old Mumbai artist, graphic designer and illustrator caused ripples in the art world with her first solo exhibition, Pati, Patni Aur Woke, which ran at the city’s Method art gallery in March. In it, and on Instagram, she delves into marriage as an Indian institution and emerges …

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