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ARTIST OF THE MONTH |
Sumanto Chowdhury
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Man has always immortalized power. This power has been in many forms and shapes, in as fluid as ideas or as concrete as religion, law and state. Through these prints I have tried to extract and portray the power of women. Since the Genesis (The Bible), the woman has been a symbol of anti-god, anti-establishment and hence of sin. But in some cultures like mine (Hinduism), she (Durga, Kaali) has been a symbol of absolute power, one who battles both gods and demons to assert her identity.
With such hindsight and knowledge, my prints try to seek for the power in today’s women, who, like their male counterparts, are caught in an array of socio-cultural flux but have more responsibilities, limitations and also prejudices running against them. These prints have a lot of influence from the folk tales and other religious stories that I had heard as a child. The stories of Durga and Kaali, the Hindu goddesses of power, are quite evident in the prints. But I would now like to foray into other cultures and societies that have a whole lot of anecdotes, folktales and other cultural determinants that tell stories of woman-power.
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