Bengal
“If I were a boy, it would have been better, but what can I do about it? I could have studied. I wouldn’t have got married so young. I’m still happy, but I get tired sometimes.” Shanti
Abstracts
Shantiniketan is three hours by train north of Calcutta. Nearby are the villages of the 'tribes', as they say, the animists who worship nature as their god. It’s also here that the great poet Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winner, founded his international free university, a 'place for freedom and joy amidst the great brotherhood of trees', and once welcomed the young Mahasweta, who would become an activist writer, a great lady of Bengal.
Shanti lives in a lovely village all in earthen tones, where traditional bas-relief decorations mingle with tags of the sickle and hammer! The region of Calcutta is primarily communist and elections are coming up. In his twilight years, the philosopher poet Tagore said: 'I have had my invitation to this world’s festival and I played there for as long as I could.' Shanti was summoned to another type of event, a retrospective on the ordinary misery of the women here below, where there is no other music than that of daily chores."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![India 2636](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_shanti.jpg?itok=jUOiImJT)
Bengal, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![India 2642](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_arbre_communiste.jpg?itok=O83gt47h)
Bengal, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![India 2644](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_cpim.jpg?itok=NCIOy3mq)
Bengal, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![India 2639](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_shanti2.jpg?itok=Buf1g2ee)
Bengal, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![India 2646](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_shanti3.jpg?itok=R4_aeRwS)
Bengal, India
Gouache on paper
42 x 68 cm
![India 2650](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_broderie_circulation.jpg?itok=fPm2OwEd)
Bengal, India
Indian embroidery
70 x 70 cm
![India 2648](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_shanti4.jpg?itok=Bt9jLaWA)
Bengal, India
Gouache and pencil on paper
33 x 92 cm
![India 2658](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_mahasweta.jpg?itok=ix129FJ_)
Bengal, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm
![India 2660](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_mahasweta2.jpg?itok=vr9eRcBf)
Bengal, India
Silver print
30 x 24 cm
![India 2664](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_le_bureau_de_mahasweta.jpg?itok=iiwVpu2i)
Bengal, India
Pencil on paper
84 x 140 cm
Maps
![India 2634](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_inde_bengale.jpg?itok=De79pTSM)
Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm