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UP Visual Arts student exhibits in New York

By Visual Arts

Posted on 06 September 2012

Alter-Native 1 (2011) by Jayna Mistry
Alter-Native 1 (2011) by Jayna Mistry

Jayna Mistry, a fourth-year student in the Department of Visual Arts, is participating in an exhibition entitled “Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective”. The exhibition, currently on display at the Queens Museum of Art, was favourably reviewed in the New York Times.

Curator Jaishri Abichandani commented: "In celebration of our 15th anniversary, ‘Her Stories’ is a retrospective look at the SAWCC’s past and present, featuring the creative works of over 100 diasporic South Asian women artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and writers, with an installation of archival photographs, publications and ephemera. The artwork selected for this exhibition prioritises decorative and identity-based concepts in order to examine the trajectory of feminist art and locate its relevance in contemporary media."

"This exhibition profiles established and emerging artists across the South Asian diaspora, including the US, South Africa, Canada, and the UK. ‘Her Stories’ includes recurring themes such as self-portraiture, with women imagining themselves as goddesses, dead queens, cats, fathers and cyborgs. By employing embroidery, digital manipulation, automated techniques and other processes, artists Chitra Ganesh, Jaishri Abichandani, Nazneen Ayyub Wood, Aisha Abid Hussain, Jayna Mistry, Mona Kamal and Swati Khurana present emotive images of varying historic registers."

The exhibition is on until 7 October 2012.

Read the New York Times review here.


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