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India


2003

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India
2003

Mumbai

“I was always the only girl in the group. My friends are all men. I’ve always been surrounded by boys. Even more so as time goes on!” Bhawna

Abstracts

"Bhawna is a model, from a conservative Hindu family in the Brahmin caste, who has always been supported by her family in her bid for independence. Meenakshi is a socially-aware journalist. She defines herself as a free spirit forged by the contradictory universes of her Hindi home, a place of intense sensory profusion, and the puritan Catholic institutions where she was schooled.

(…) Bhawna doesn’t exactly correspond to the stereotype of the Indian woman who bends to traditions, with a red dot in the middle of her forehead. Still, I like the idea that the most emancipated women like Meenakshi, and Indian society in general, don’t sacrifice their colour to urban westernisation. Very early in the morning, you can see groups of women winding their way down the footpaths of the immense boulevard in the south of Mumbai: they go jogging in trainers before going to work, or they stride purposely, draped in multicoloured saris."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

India 2521
Bhavna, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

India 2523
Bhavna 2, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

India 3513
Bhavna 3, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

India 3515
Bhavna 4, 2003

Mumbai, India
Silver print
30 x 40 cm

India 2531
Nandini, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

India 2533
Nandini 2, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 30 cm

India 2517
Songs of non-violence, 2003

Mumbai, India
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

India 2519
Neela, 2003

Mumbai, India
Silver print
30 x 24 cm

Maps

India 2516
Map of India and Bangladesh, 2003

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

Making-of

Movie by Marc Jampolsky

Books

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