Pritika Chowdhry's Anti-Memorial Art Project Highlights The Partition Of India & Pakistan

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HighlightsThePartitionOfIndiaandPakistan

PritikaChowdhry'sAnti-MemorialArt

PritikaChowdhry'santi-memorial project“BrokenColumn:The MonumentsofForgetting” triangulatemonumentsinIndia, Pakistan,andBangladeshthrough latexandsiliconecasts.

ChowdhryfirstbeganthePartitionAnti-MemorialProjectin2007andhas sincecreatedtensite-specific,research-basedartinstallationsabout differentaspectsofthePartition.

Herexhibitincludeslatexand siliconecastsofJallianwallan Baghmemorial,India,Minare-Pakistanmonument, Pakistan,andMartyred IntellectualsMemorial, Bangladesh. Chowdhryexplainsthat hergoalistocreatea quietlyprovocativeand experientialenvironment forviewersofherart exhibit.

memorialsare currentlybeing exhibitedattheSouth

AsiaInstitutein

Chowdhry,whose grandparentssurvivedthe 1947Partition,explainedthat herartismeanttorepairand heal,andraisecollective awarenessoftheevents1947 and1971.

BrokenColumnremainsan ongoingprojectandwill continuespreading awarenessaboutthe PartitionofIndia,1947and theBangladeshLiberation
War,1971.
Learnmoreat https://www.pritikachowdh ry.com/broken-column

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