#pushpamala n.

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Pushpamala N.

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Pushpamala N., The Navarasa Suite from the series Bombay Photo Studio, 2003 x

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Pushpamala N. (Indian,b.1956)

Phantom Lady or Kismet, 1996-1998

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O Samorim de Calecute

“... e desaguei numa câmara que logo se deduzia mui especial, e eis que num catre de cetins com um dossel de veludo se assentava o chefe daquela gente, e possuía ele a dignidade de Samorim, e com a vénia apropriada ao seu estado o saudei”

Mário Cláudio, “Peregrinação de Barnabé das Índias”; fotografia da artista indiana Pushpamala N., recriando o quadro de Veloso Salgado.

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The Arrival of Vasco da Gama (2014), Pushpamala N. Giclée print. A recreation of Portuguese artist José Veloso Salgado’s Vasco da Gama perante o Samorim (1848). 

Source: Singapore International Festival of Arts

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Pushpamala N., b. India, 1956 The Harcourt Set: Liberty (after Delacroix) The Slave and her Slave (after 19c French print based on Ingres painting) The Spy (after 19c photograph of Countess Castiglione by Pierson) France (2009) [Source], [Source]

Commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, for the show Paris- Delhi- Bombay

The artist chose to recreate and perform in three 19th century images from French history to talk about the place of women in French society. While Delacroix’s ‘Liberty’ is an iconic painting about the French Revolution, Ingres Orientalist painting of a hamam scene, beloved of French painters,  brings up the history of colonial domination. In the strongly patriarchal French society there were powerful women who were royal mistresses, like the Countess Castiglione, the mistress of Napoleon III, who worked as diplomat and spy for the court.

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Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, from "Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs,” with Lamprey Grid, 2000-2004

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