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The Freedom to Go Against the Grain
Sampurna Chattarji
IndiaGALLERYCONVERSATION
My upbringing granted me the privilege of being able to do so. In India, where even today girls allow their parents to choose their...
The further I moved away from the kind of woman my mother seemed to me, the closer I came to realizing how big her role in my self-definition was. It was she who invariably accepted and took pride in my atypical choices, choices that she herself was denied.
My art is about these dichotomies, which more than anything, define us, a group of women now in our early thirties, the keen edges of certainty a bit frayed, the first flush of triumphant rejections and personal successes fading down to introspection, and re-evaluation. We are being reclaimed by our mythologies, we are re-creating ourselves.

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