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Through her work, Chitra Ganesh is “…interested in recovering and fleshing out erased moments in history or mythology and imagining them more fully” (the artist quoted in Natasha Bissounath, “Storytelling”, Art & Deal, Vol. 5, No. 4, Issue 26, 2008, p. 96). These moments that Ganesh excavates often concern imbalanced power dynamics, exposing the ways in which broad cultural and historical narratives tacitly overlook, or perhaps intentionally... Through her work, Chitra Ganesh is “…interested in recovering and fleshing out erased moments in history or mythology and imagining them more fully” (the artist quoted in Natasha Bissounath, “Storytelling”, Art & Deal, Vol. 5, No. 4, Issue 26, 2008, p. 96). These moments that Ganesh excavates often concern imbalanced power dynamics, exposing the ways in which broad cultural and historical narratives tacitly overlook, or perhaps intentionally ignore the subaltern. In her work, then, Ganesh presents those that have been denied both voice and mobility as gendered, sexualized and politicized beings.

In the present lot, based on a large mural by the artist with the same title, gaping jeweled wounds share the frame with hyperbolic symbols of fertility, drawing attention to the historical and cultural construction of the feminine body as a vehicle of action and reproduction, as well as a site where hierarchies, violence and erasure are enacted.

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