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Staged and shot at the studio of JH Thakker, a leading photography studio of “Golden Age” Indian film stars, in these works the artist uses her own body to create an intricate masquerade that combines elements of humor, storytelling, and feminist critique. For the Navarasa Suite within this series, Pushpamala assumes the guises of the nine rasas, or moods, from Sanskrit literature and Hindu artistic culture. In taking on these popular tropes, Pushpamala offers commentary on how Indian cinema has, in the artist’s words, “both created and recorded the country’s modernity.”
2020
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