Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: May 20, 2019 9:10:41 am
Kolkata-based artist Piyali Sadhukhan uses art to address violence against women
Her choice to write couplets, in Braille, under most of her art works, successfully fulfill her purpose, of showing how society turns a blind eye to situations.
Broken bangles to artist Piyali Sadhukhan from Kolkata are a reminder of Indian women, who are forced to break their bangles on the death of their husbands, or are at the receiving end of domestic violence. Choosing this medium — that has a history of potholes and pain attached to them — she transforms them into something beautiful, in her installation. She broke her spine in a stumble down an alpine pass, where she has handpicked floral patterns from Kashmiri carpets, and replicated them using broken bangles on Nepali handmade paper, spreading it across the floor at Akar Prakar gallery. From far, it looks like a Gulliver-size equivalent of a necklace. Using crochet, she has shaped one end to resemble a spine and the other end a halo. Sadhukhan presents this as part of her latest solo “Seeing is (Not) Believing”.
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