Chitra Ganesh (USA)

White Bay Power Station

Across 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 studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons. She often draws on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and South Asian forms such as Kalighat and Madhubani, and is currently negotiating her relationship to these images with the rise of right wing fundamentalism in India.

Listen to Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya. Read by Uma Chakravarti (born 20 August 1941), an Indian historian, filmmaker and leading scholar of women’s and feminist history writing in the subcontinent, based in New Delhi. 

Listen to Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya. Read by Zohra Agathocleous 

Listen to Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya. Read by Uma Sultana 

Listen to Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya. Read by Mimi Mondal Sultana 

Listen to Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya. Read by Mariam Ghani Sultana 

Presentation at the 24th Biennale of Sydney was made possible with generous support from Terra Foundation for American Art.