Rajasthan
“It’s better to be a boy. A good boy goes to school and can do any type of job, travel, go where he likes without asking anyone. Good or bad, a young girl has to stay at home.” Pushpa
Abstracts
"Pushpa is a young untouchable from Rajasthan, who I met in a literacy association supported by UNESCO. She dreams of a non-arranged marriage, a profession other than being a housewife. (…) Earlier, I’d been introduced to a peasant known for carrying out a solo crusade against arranged marriages. She faced permanent threats from those around her. This poor woman agreed to meet us. Straight away, I knew that she’d provide a magnificent, powerful portrait.
But I had to renounce this project when she suddenly turned down my request. The night before our arrival, enemy villagers had committed a grave act of hostility that stooped to the worst form of cruelty: they had put a dead cow in her field!"
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![INDIA 2460](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_cour_de_la_maison_de_pushpa.jpg?itok=mv1S8oqu)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
57 x 74 cm
![INDIA 2487](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_pushpa_0.jpg?itok=moBFvchJ)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
33 x 41 cm
![INDIA 3511](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_pushpa2.jpg?itok=J2TyVdwN)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
84 x 42 cm
![INDIA 2470](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_la_maison_de_pushpa.jpg?itok=gywahcjM)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![INDIA 2472](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira.jpg?itok=1MjbYRc_)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm
![INDIA 2474](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira2.jpg?itok=9pfl4ZeX)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 36 cm
![INDIA 2476](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira3.jpg?itok=aM1QrLfN)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
42 x 64 cm
![INDIA 2478](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira4.jpg?itok=We1RemPV)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm
![INDIA 2483](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira_devant_sa_maison.jpg?itok=4H2zc3su)
Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm
![INDIA 2485](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_hira5.jpg?itok=HBK419I_)
Rajasthan, India
Pastel on paper
66 x 42 cm
Maps
![INDIA 2488](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_inde_rajasthan.jpg?itok=Mnicx5I8)
Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm
Making-of
Photo by Delphine Bole