New animation, Before the War, on view at Seattle Art Museum
Chitra Ganesh will be premiering her newest animation at the group show Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time at the Seattle Asian Art Museum opening January 14. Before the War, featuring music by Saul Williams, is a meditation on love, memory and loss amidst political polarization and the COVID-19 pandemic and was animated by THE STUDIO NYC.
EMBODIED CHANGE: SOUTH ASIAN ART ACROSS TIME
JAN 14 – JUL 10 2022
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
SOUTH GALLERY
Spanning a period from the third millennium BCE to today, the works in this exhibition offer metamorphic and compelling images of the human body. Most of the artists utilize female and feminized forms in a myriad of ways, including as a devotional object, as a mode of self-representation, and to question the safety of public spaces.
Each of the artists here invest the human body with the power to question social, political, and normative fictions. By doing so, they invite you to explore the complexities of the human body: to contemplate and question which bodies are conferred with greater degrees of humanity and perhaps to imagine, with them, different ways to embody change.
ARTISTS
Adeela Suleman
B. Prabha
Bani Abidi
Baua Devi
Brendan Fernandes
Chila Kumari Singh Burman
Chitra Ganesh
F. N. Souza
Godawari Dutta
Humaira Abid
Jagdamba Devi
Malavika Rajnarayan
Mithu Sen
Naiza Khan
Pushpamala N.
Rekha Rodwittiya