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Brooklyn based artist Chitra Ganesh’s vivid digital panoramas “…are inspired by images from Indian comic books known as Amar Chitra Kathas, which present religious and cultural narratives based in Hindu mythology and South Asian history to a popular audience. Amar Chitra Kathas are read and distributed widely both on the South Asian subcontinent, as well as the diaspora (Canada, England, US, Australia, and Caribbean), with the explicit intent of... Brooklyn based artist Chitra Ganesh’s vivid digital panoramas “…are inspired by images from Indian comic books known as Amar Chitra Kathas, which present religious and cultural narratives based in Hindu mythology and South Asian history to a popular audience. Amar Chitra Kathas are read and distributed widely both on the South Asian subcontinent, as well as the diaspora (Canada, England, US, Australia, and Caribbean), with the explicit intent of educating children about the cultural history of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar).”

“Like collections of Grimm’s fairy tales, Greek myths, vampire stories, or other popular folklore, Amar Chitra Katha comics provide prescriptive models of citizenship, nationalism, religious expression, public behavior, and sexuality. The works were created by integrating fragments of the original comics with pen and ink drawings and rewriting the text. I’d like to create a mythology that poses questions rather than gives clear answers, in which ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are no longer constitutive categories organizing our world experience. Abject imagery and disjunctive narratives interrupt traditional storytelling forms, offering alternate articulations of conflict, desire and power” (from the artist’s statement on her website, accessed January, 2009).

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