Future Perfect: “Born in Flames” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Art in America
Outside the exhibition “Born in Flames: Feminist Futures” is a poetic wall text penned by curator Jasmine Wahi: “You are in the tender belly of the beast. // Cocooned in protective silks. . . .Enveloped in swaths of complexity borne out of a Kali-like maternal instinct:: both coddling and deeply-fiercely protective. // This is the first stop on your journey through an untamed and intersecting space where/when many worlds collide.” Rather than begrudgingly perform the work of most museum writing, this language reflects the visceral materiality and temporal repositioning that define the exhibition.
View of "Born in Flames," 2021, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, showing paintings by Chitra Ganesh, all 2021.Photo: Becca Guzzo