Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, artwork on muslin cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 50 cm x 40 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 57. 5 cm x 45 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 150 cm x 117.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 250 cm x 120 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, Pages from Blood Book, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 22.5 cm x 20 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, Pages from Blood Book, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, Pages from Blood Book, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 25 cm x 25 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, 3657 Unknown Prints, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 24 cm x 30 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, 3657 Unknown Prints, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 30 cm x 30 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, 3657 Unknown Prints, Natural colour on paper, 20 cm x 22.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 42.5 cm x 42.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 41 cm x 35 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 40 cm x 47.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, 3657 Unknown Prints, Natural colour on muslin cloth, 30 cm x 30 cm, 2019

Ashmina Ranjit, Same River but the Water, Video, 16 minutes 6 seconds, 2016

Jasmine Nilani Joseph, pen on paper, Sri Lankan Artist

Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Residence I, Pen on paper, 20 cm x 76.5 cm, 2018

Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Residence II, Pen on paper, 20 cm x 76.5 cm, 2018

Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Residence III, Pen on paper, 20 cm x 76.5 cm, 2018

Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Residence IV, Pen on paper, 20 cm x 76.5 cm, 2018

Madiha Sikander, Gadrung on paper, book art

Madiha Sikander, All Representation is Misrepresentation, Gadrung and gold leaf on paper (hand-painted found book), 19 cm X 24 cm X 1 cm, 2018

Madiha Sikander, How to Paint a Flower, Gadrung on paper (hand-painted found book), 19 cm x 22.5 cm x 1 cm, 2017

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Sexualpathologie (Magnus Hirschfeld), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 29 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book – Buddha Murdered (M. A. Nuhman), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Oppressed By Nights Of War (S. Sivaramani ),Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - A Full-Body Shave (Perumal Murugan), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 14 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Aftermath – Five Cities that Ruled the World (Douglas Wilson), Book Ash, Plaster of Paris and pigment, 27.5 cm x 11 cm x 9 cm, 2016

Mansha Chhatwal, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper

Mansha Chhatwal, Library – Hakim Nasir Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center (Pol-e Khumri, Afghanistan, 1998), Book ash, Acrylic medium, Ink and Archival paper, 75 cm x 55 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Library - Jaffna Public Library (Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 1981 & 1985), Book ash, Acrylic medium, Ink on Archival paper, 75 cm x 55 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Library - Institute for Sexual Science (Berlin, 1933), Book ash, Acrylic medium, Ink on Archival paper, 75 cm x 55 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Drawing the Line of Intolerance, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper, 55 cm x 37.5 cm each, 2019

Najmun Nehar (Keya), Dhaka Artist digital print

Najmun Nehar Keya, Voyage, Digital print, gold leaf and rabbit skin glue, 7 cm x 9 cm each, 2017

Najmun Nehar Keya, Echo of Love, Photo print on archival paper and gold leaf, archival glue, 25 cm x 30 cm each, 2019

Najmun Nehar Keya, Known Unknown, Photo print on archival paper, gold leaf and archival glue, 12.5 cm x 10 cm each, 2019

Vipeksha Gupta, Anāpāna-sati, Pencil on paper, 50 cm x 50 cm (set of 16), 2019

Vipeksha Gupta, Pāramīs (Ten virtues), Pencil on paper, 37.5 cm X 50 cm (set of 10), 2019

South Asian Women Artists, Gallery Espace

Installation

Out of Your Shadow

Blueprint12 and Gallery Espace present Out of Your Shadow, a group show of women artists from six south Asian countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Besides geography, these countries share a common legacy of colonial dominance and a similarity of culture and social mores, of ideas and philosophies, of architecture and iconography. In recent times, they are united by a common political system – democracy (with varying degrees of success, of course) - and a history of unrest, repression and violence. Women, of course, have been the worst affected by this. Their lives have been circumscribed or they have been forced to migrate. It has also sharpened these women artists’ focus on identity – political and gender – and the forces that shape or endanger it. Of course, it’s unfair to pin their art to either gender or politics; their art is an aesthetic response, oblique and intensely personal, keeping within the bounds of convention while also seeking to transcend and mould it to their needs.

The show hopes to ride on the global focus on women’s art in recent times with initiatives such as the Tate Modern’s #5womenartists. In India, women artists have been no more successful in accessing patronage – whether to show or sell their art - than in other parts of the world. It’s time the Indian art fraternity to recognise this gender inequity and open up spaces for the voices of women to be heard.

2019

Artists

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
Ashmina Ranjit
Jasmine Nilani
Madiha Sikander
Mansha Chhatwal
Najmun Nehar (Keya)
Vipeksha Gupta

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Installation

Out of Your Shadow

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