WO-MAN
from personal to political - Curated by Rebecca John and Nikhil Raunak
from personal to political - Curated by Rebecca John and Nikhil Raunak
Clark House, Mumbai 2014
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In this photographic series ‘Where it all begins’ which is connected to an interaction in the public space among different genders and the perception of people around them.
In South Asia, there exist multiple gender minority groups, including but not limited to hijras. The focus on this figure as a gender non-normative person who occupies and visually represents the liminal space between male and female – often seen in both the general and the ladies compartment of Bombay’s local trains.
In South Asia, there exist multiple gender minority groups, including but not limited to hijras. The focus on this figure as a gender non-normative person who occupies and visually represents the liminal space between male and female – often seen in both the general and the ladies compartment of Bombay’s local trains.
The photographic series of a staged situation showing alternative gender roles in a utopian vision of possibilities for modern Indian gender diversity. The aim is to show causality, using an undramatic and documentary language.
‘The apple is an object of union and division for me.
I added a small change in the story of Adam and Eve so
that no sin has happened: In the photograph I completed
the apple logo on the laptop and there are three uneaten
apples. So there is no one to blame.’
I added a small change in the story of Adam and Eve so
that no sin has happened: In the photograph I completed
the apple logo on the laptop and there are three uneaten
apples. So there is no one to blame.’
Salik
The second work ‘Untitled’(A Gender representation chart), Salik looks at the lingual origins of our gender duality and trying to deconstruct it by inventing an alternative representation of a third gender in the English language – instead of the common practice of repeating the binary pronouns by saying ‘he/she’. By sending this new language code to more and more people asking them to apply this in a piece of literature, he wants to introduce a third grammatical gender to everyday English language.
From the movie Schindler’s list (using new representations)
"Helen Hirsch : Hoi will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and hoi drew hal gun and shot a hefeme who was passing by. Just a hefeme with a bundle, just shot hal through the throat. hoi was just a hefeme on hal way somewhere, hoi was no faster or slower or fatter or thinner than anyone else and I couldn’t guess what had hoi done. The more you see of the Herr Kommandant the more you see there are no set
rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, “If I follow these rules, I will be safe.”
"Helen Hirsch : Hoi will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and hoi drew hal gun and shot a hefeme who was passing by. Just a hefeme with a bundle, just shot hal through the throat. hoi was just a hefeme on hal way somewhere, hoi was no faster or slower or fatter or thinner than anyone else and I couldn’t guess what had hoi done. The more you see of the Herr Kommandant the more you see there are no set
rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, “If I follow these rules, I will be safe.”
