Chitra Ganesh
9783954766468
216 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
In a creative career that now spans almost three decades, Chitra Ganesh (b. Brooklyn, New York, US, 1975; lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York, US) has built an extensive oeuvre that, anchored in drawing
and painting, branches out in manifold ways into media ranging from animation, mural,
collage, and sculpture to computer-generated imagery and video. With enormous
passion for detail, Ganesh combines a multifaceted palette of cultural
influences with the visual idiom of vintage comics, Bollywood posters, and
videogames. Her practice lets her delve into narratives and images drawn from
the cultural history of South Asia without veering into nostalgia. Her works
instead challenge conventions of gender, sexuality, and power by putting
complex mythological narratives around iconic female protagonists front and
center. The monograph is primarily dedicated to Ganesh's work 2013–2023, while including images and context from 1996 to the present. With
essays by Natasha Bissonauth, Gayatri Gopinath, Saisha Grayson, Tausif Noor,
Svati Shah, and Ksenia Soboleva.
Author Bio
In a creative career that now spans almost three decades, Chitra Ganesh (b. Brooklyn, New York, US, 1975; lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York, US) has built an extensive oeuvre that, anchored in drawing
and painting, branches out in manifold ways into media ranging from animation, mural,
collage, and sculpture to computer-generated imagery and video. With enormous
passion for detail, Ganesh combines a multifaceted palette of cultural
influences with the visual idiom of vintage comics, Bollywood posters, and
videogames. Her practice lets her delve into narratives and images drawn from
the cultural history of South Asia without veering into nostalgia. Her works
instead challenge conventions of gender, sexuality, and power by putting
complex mythological narratives around iconic female protagonists front and
center.
