SRI (MULTIPLE FEMINISMS) Art Exhibition on March 30 in Delhi

Report by Santanu Ganguly: An emphatic compound that complicates, 'Sri', denotes both the feminine principle and is used as a male honorific prefix in South Asia. 'Sri' the exhibition, uses this complication as a springboard to initiate an interrogation of the multiple sites of contestation - multiple hierarchies and multiple patriarchies, as well as explore the multifaceted significance of womanhood in South Asia.



Sri is a survey exhibition around gender and women's narratives, foregrounding women's empowerment through an investigation of gender as a site for contestations of power & violence, perception & reality, memory & loss, and finally, station & displacement - especially within urban ecologies and the ever morphous shifting boundaries of personal and political geographies. Sri brings together diverse artists from the Indian Sub-continent and Diaspora whose stories and experiences form a narrative that excavates, personalizes and reclaims an expression for 'womanhood' that has been subsumed by the dominant normative and in the process redefines 'gender' & 'body' in South Asia, and the notion of women's empowerment in the contemporary world.

Participating artists are ANUPAM SUD. ANJOLIE ELA MENON . ARPANA CAUR . SHILPA GUPTA . GAURI GILL . AMINA AHMED . ALEX DAVIS .PUNEET KAUSHIK . BAARAAN IJLAL . SHIVANI AGGARWAL . SIMEEN FARHAT . SHANTI BRINDA. AMIT KUMAR GAUR . IVY MANDAL. SATYAKAM SAHA . SATADRU SOVAN. SUPARNA MONDAL, the exhibition will be curated by Myna Mukherjee.

Date: March 8, 2013 (Friday) at 6:30 pm
Venue: The American Center, 24 KG Marg, New Delhi - 110001
The exhibition will remain open till March 30, 2013
Promotional Partners: Art & Deal Magazine, Yodakin
Entry: Free with valid Photo ID required.

Photography is prohibited. All visitors may be featured in photos or video to be used for promotional purposes or on social media by the American Center or US Embassy.