The Reticence ” by Shipra Rani at Triveni Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam.
Women stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of women still tied to her place as bearer of meaning and the responses it generated particularly in relation to questions of women’s pleasure and cross gendered spectatorial identification. My work engaged with socially relevant themes, moody depiction of interrelation and some iconic feminine object. She has used embroidery, beads and textile as a powerful symbolic medium of expression and resistance against the male dominated society, and the masquerade mask, to express one’s freedom of speech and opinion without judgement.
Through symbolic and metaphor engaged with socially relevant themes and inconstant delineation of interrelation femme identity. Her inspiration comes from our society (the identity of women that she represent in a frame) , from
around her family and what is happening around us, Where the women raise children, along with all household work, and the still image of women who spend their live in unrecognized labour in the home.