Images Re-drawn

To look back in time in search of different historical context for art, I got fascinated with primitive cultures and representation of women - not for revivalist purposes but to move and re-place the archetypal in contemporary context. Critical use of myth rather than its celebration alone interested me. For this body of work, I took references from Mayan, African and Indian pre-historic and indigenous cultures as well as text from women’s writings, magazines and newspapers.

Images Re-drawn, a cooperative project, involved a Mumbai based sculptor A. Siddiqui who was interested in working with an artist engaged with the issue of representation of female body in the context of art.

The idea of inviting a male artist engaged in creating stereotypical imagery of female bodies as curios, to participate in a process dealing with questions such as ‘how to differentiate a female body from sexist usage or religious, and how the bodies could be reclaimed from its patriarchal construction, was to encourage dialogue and to realize how It is only through critical understanding of representation that re-presentation of women can occur’.