‘Of flying scalpels,multi-breasted womenand seeing-eye lotuses’, Art India
With composite figures in dramatic situations drawn using a pool of popular cultural references, Chitra Ganesh explores propositions of beauty and femininity, aesthetics and teratology. Nivedita Magar speaks to Brooklyn-based Ganesh, a leading artist of the South Asian diaspora, about the thematic motivations behind A Zebra Among Horses, her first solo in New Delhi, on display at Gallery Espace, from the 28th of September to the 31st of October.