Tuesday, May 14, 2013



This artwork is an attempt to represent the social suffering women endured during the Partition of India in 1947, and afterwards. When Indians and future Pakistani men were fighting for every bit of territory, rapping the woman enemy was like conquering more land. This is why the woman in the art piece is set at the border of the newly formed countries. Her body is transformed into a piece of territory and is unjustly stuck in the divide between two cultures in conflict. Although she cannot express her suffering through language, her left arm seeks a connection with society (up on the right); a sort of “bodying forth of words.” The orange and red spiral represents the distance that separates her and society but also the poetry and art which can help fill in this void and serve as new forms of communication, other than language.   

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