ArtistPritikaChowdhry ExhibitsArtworkAsAntiMemorialOfIndia's Partition
Chicago’sSouthAsiaInstitutewantstoshowyouIndia’s historythroughthelensofapowerfulyoungvoiceinIndian Americanart,PritikaChowdhry. Chowdhry’snewestexhibition, 'UnbearableMemories, UnspeakableHistories:Partition Anti-MemorialProject'wrestleswith thehorrificeventsofthePartitionof India.
Thenewexhibitionisnowopentomembersofthepubliclikeyourself attheSouthAsiaInstituteinthePrairieDistrictjustsouthof DowntownChicago. Chowdhry’santi-memorialexhibition revealstheviolencethatoccurredthen, specificallythesexualviolencethatwas enduredbywomenonbothsidesofthe dividingline.
‘UnbearableMemories,UnspeakableHistories’usesFoucault's theoryof'Counter-Memory'toartisticallyexcavatethisharsh periodinIndiaandPakistan’sjointhistory. Throughexperientialartinstallations thatusemixedmaterialsandthe tensionbetweenopenspaceand corporealbodies,Chowdhrymakes manifesttheexperiencesofwomenin 1947.
said,"Counter-MemoryProjectisthestuffoftruth-telling,trauma-
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JacqueMicieli-Voutsinas,ProfessorofMuseumStudiesattheUoF
healing,andnarrative-forging.”
ChowdhryhasanMFAinStudioArtandanMAinVisual CultureandGenderStudiesfromtheUniversityof Wisconsin. Herworkhasbeenexhibitedextensively nationallyandinternationally,including atacclaimedgallerieslikeWeismann MuseuminMinneapolis,Queens MuseuminNewYorkandthe HunterdonMuseuminNewJersey.
JacquiPalumbo,aSeniorWriterandProduceratCNN saidofthenewexhibition,“Throughquietbutsearing installations,artistPritikaChowdhryreckonswith violencethatripplesthroughgenerations:mass displacement,rapeandriotstracingbacktothe snakingbordersthatsplitanation.”
Chowdhry'sretrospectivefeaturedinCNN
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