The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘The Body Politic’, and a tribute to Gauri Lankesh
The HinduIn ‘The Body Politic’, Pushpamala N., a sculptor-turned-photo, video, and light performance artist, displayed her satirical work at The Hindu Lit Fest 2024, which addresses the idea of the nation, particularly the woman’s place in the nation. Read our live updates of The Hindu Lit Fest 2024, Day 2 The photographs show Ms. Pushpamala posing in popular photo settings as Mother India. The various iterations of Mother India include the painting ‘Kichaka Sairandhri’ by Ravi Verma, which is seen as a metaphor for colonialism; Kali, a Calcutta art studio calendar image, and ‘Bharat Mata’, a watercolour by Abanindranath Tagore. Ms. Pushpamala paid tribute to her friend, journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated in 2017, through her work ‘Gauri Lankesh’s Urgent Saaru’.
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