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Kumari Ranjeeta
‘My artwork is a depiction of the inner
light of womanhood and motherhood that perseveres despite the darkness
of marginalization. Drawing inspiration from rebellious thoughts and
ideas of humanism, I seek to illuminate the unseen, the silenced, and
the erased.
My art is a rebellion that seek to
refuse patriarchal narratives and stereotypes that erase the
contributions of women.
My process includes a variety of medium
and material and experiment through I collected old saris, crystal stone
and visual inspiration from my surrounding and social landscape of our
history and contemporary time, in my installation I explore an abstract
visual form from child doodling and maps which combines many cross over
lines with crystal stone and gives a dimension to my visual aesthetic.’
- Kumari Ranjeeta
She was born in Mokama,
Bihar. Her father was associated with a local chapter of the CPI, and
gave her her early inspirations from radical poets as Kaifi Azmi and
Sahir Ludhianvi, to thinkers such as Marx and Ambedkar. Her family has
for several generations been involved in crafting objects from bamboo,
such as baskets or winnowing trays.
Ranjeeta received her MFA in
Fine Art from the Shiv Nadar University in Delhi. Her art practice
questions the aesthetics of labour and migration, building a visual
identity for the marginalised.
Her recent exhibitions
include India Art Fair, The Guild, 2023; Home, A Belonging, Art
and Charlie, Mumbai, 2023; The Chaos Trilogy I: Disorder Under Heaven,
curated by Premjish Achari, The Guild, Alibaug, 2022; Woman Is as
Woman Does, curated by Nancy Adajania, Jehangir Nicholson Art
Foundation and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai,
2022; Labour of the Unseen: Nihilism in Craft, Clark House
Initiative, Mumbai, 2016; River with a Thousand Holes, Clark
House Initiative, Mumbai, 2016; Stories My Country Told Me,
curated by Yogesh Barve, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea,
2016; And I Laid Traps for Troubadours, Kadist Art Foundation,
Paris, and Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, 2014. Her work is part of the
permanent collection at the MAP Museum, Bangalore. |
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