A socio-political, feminist artist, Chicago's Pritika Chowdhry creates art installations that serve as anti-memorials to traumatic geopolitical events. Her newest project, Partition of India and the Radcliffe Line, depicts the brutal Partition of India in 1947 imposed by British decree. View the project at https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/cracking-india
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Pritika Chowdhry's series of Counter-
Monuments Recall The 1947 Partition of India
A socio-political, feminist artist,
Chicago's Pritika Chowdhry
creates art installations that
serve as anti-memorials to
traumatic geopolitical events.
Her new project, Partition and the Radcliffe Line, depicts the brutal Partition
of India in 1947 imposed by British decree. It is on exhibit at the South Asia
Institute in Chicago.
August 15, 2022
marks the 75th
anniversary of the
Partition.
An anti-memorial project,
Partition of India and 'Radcliffe
Line - Cracking India: The Line
that Still Bleeds' is a series of
neon sculptures that symbolize
colonial indifference.
The formalized division that
placed India in-between East
and West Pakistan intensified
distrust between religious
groups, leading to chaos and
several Indo-Pak wars.
Chowdhry's grandparents
survived the Partition of India
but lost members of their
extended family. She devoted
her art to examining such
traumatic geopolitical events
ever since.
Chowdhry's newest project uses
pink neon to represent the
gendered experience of the
Partition of India for Muslim,
Hindu, Sikh and Bengali women
were forced to bear.
Find out at more:
https://www.pritikachow
dhry.com/