Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future opens at the Clifford Gallery, Colgate University

Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future is now on view at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, NY, USA, through 12 November 2023. 

Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future features a newly-commissioned mural alongside a selection of comic-inspired prints and digital animations by multimedia artist Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975). Images of monumental, hybrid female bodies that exceed the boundaries of accepted ideas of femininity are placed alongside Ganesh's imaginative visual interpretation of Sultana's Dream, a visionary story of a feminist utopia written by Bengali author Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain in 1905. The Scorpion Gesture, a suite of five digital animations, relates Buddhist cosmology and teachings to present social concerns. In her vibrant, otherworldly works, Ganesh combines the visual languages of contemporary popular culture, especially science fiction and mass-produced Indian comics, with traditional Hindu and Buddhist mythologies to collapse the past, present, and future, presenting time as cyclical and parallel trajectories rather than linear. Drawing from her extensive studies in social theory, semiotics, literature, and science fiction, Ganesh envisions narratives of the future that center female protagonists and queer relationships.

Curated by Kali Steinberg.

Link to Clifford Gallery website