Artist Chitra Ganesh's "Eyes of Time" Exhibition Comes to the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

The artist combines elements of mythological and pop culture to "bring to light feminist and queer narratives."

Nov 27, 2014
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Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh will present a site-specific installation in the Herstory Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art titled "Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time." Taking inspiration from the museum's collection, Ganesh's installation will use mythology and other elements to portray "female power and plurality," themes that she has returned to several times over the past ten years.

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Chitra Ganesh. Installation view of Cosmic Butterflies in Tradition, Trauma, Transformation: Representations of Women by Chitra Ganesh, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh at David Winton Bell Gallery, List Arts Center, Providence , Rhode Island, March 26–May 29, 2011

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Chitra Ganesh. How We Do at the End of the World, 2011. Lightjet print, 66 x 48 in. (167.6 x 122.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

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Chitra Ganesh. Untitled from Delicate Line (Corpse she was holding): Her head in the flames?, portfolio of eleven prints, 2009. Silkscreen with lithography, monotype, relief, and glitter, 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Brodsky Center, Rutgers University

Ganesh will create a mural that features the Hindu goddess Kali and figures from Judy’s Chicago’s The Dinner Party, and objects from the museum's European, Indian, and Contemporary collections will also be shown with the installation. The installation as a whole will serve as another step toward the artist's goal to "bring to light feminist and queer narratives."

"Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time" opens on Dec. 12 and runs through July 12. For more info, head to the exhibition page.

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