Debut | Chitra Ganesh

January 18 — 20, 2019 | Pier 35, 1454 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA | Booth A4

UNTITLED Art San Francisco, installation view, Pier 35, San Francisco, CA, January 18 - January 20, 2019

Chitra Ganesh, The Condition of Womanhood, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Chitra Ganesh, Refugees and Queen, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Chitra Ganesh, Justice is Virtue, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Chitra Ganesh, Baby Queen, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Chitra Ganesh, Over the City, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Chitra Ganesh, After the Dream, 2018, Linocut BFK Rives Tan, 280gsm, Edition of 35, 20 1/ 8 x 16 1/8 inches (51.1 x 41 cm)

Gallery Wendi Norris presents a solo booth of work by Chitra Ganesh, featuring an immersive installation of her 2018 series titled "Sultana's Dream". On view will be 27 Linocut prints in narrative sequence around the three walls of the booth, and an audio recording overhead.

"Sultana's Dream" is a large-scale narrative suite inspired by a 1905 feminist utopian text written by a Bengali writer and social reformer, Rokeya Sakhhawat Hussain. The story illustrates an alternative future in which gender roles in India are reversed and women occupy broad-ranging positions of power. For this complex, multi-process project, Ganesh's visual research spans depictions of utopia, Islamic architecture, 19th century scientific instruments, turn-of-the-century Bengal, Afro-futurism, and narratives of national and feminist liberation.

The prints will be published as a limited edition book by Durham Press in 2019, with an introductory essay by Saisha Grayson, curator of time-based media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum