Chitra Ganesh | Land of Fire (2023)

Video (9:57): Queer feminist artist Chitra Ganesh was invited to take part in a group exhibition about reconsidering history and our place in it. The show was Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023. Video: Vlad Cîndea.

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Chitra Ganesh

Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975, Brooklyn, New York, USA) received a BA in Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1996. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2001 and received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York in 2002. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Over a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer-generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Ganesh ‘constantly attempts to challenge patriarchal norms and empower her female and queer subjects by constructing alternate visual narratives, while drawing on South Asian visual traditions as well as canonical and contemporary feminist and queer scholarship.