Hindu Mythology and American Science Fiction Inspires Exhibition at Gay Museum

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB

Chitra Ganesh, Atlas, 2013, Archival chromogenic print, 70 x 52 in. Courtesy of the artist.

NEW YORK---Manhattan's Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents "After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality" through July 27, 2014. The exhibition explores queer feminist artists’ responses to dominant notions about the body from the 1970s to present day, and features ten artists including Chitra Ganesh. The ditial collages of Ganesh are inspired by Indian comic books, Hindu mythology and American science fiction, but also draw from disparate materials and cultural sources to offer alternate narratives of female sexuality and power.  In Ganesh’s work, the body serves as a site of transgression and revision, tearing apart stereotypes and histories only to reassemble them into a radical vision of corporeality, citizenship and desire.

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art: "After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality" (Ends July 27); 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY; (212) 431-2609; LeslieLohman.org