Chitra Ganesh Reimagines South Asian Mythology for Modern Times, Kajal Magazine, April 2018
In a new installation at the Rubin Museum, Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh interrupts the museum’s permanent collection of Himalayan art with animated videos that draw directly from images in the galleries. Bodhisattvas, tantric deities and Buddhas from the collection are transported through history to the present, adapted into the futurist landscapes where figures are drawn in bright neon lights, visions are beheld through 3D glasses and Buddhas can be androids.