Pritika Chowdhry’s Art Exhibit In Chicago Is An Anti-Memorial To Partition Of India & Pakistan

Chicago’s South Asia Institute wants to show you India’s history through the lens of a powerful young voice in Indian American art, Pritika Chowdhry.
Chowdhry’s newest exhibition, ‘Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories: Partition Anti-Memorial Project’ wrestles with the horrific events of the Partition of India.
The new exhibition is now open to members of the public like yourself at the South Asia Institute in the Prairie District just south of Downtown Chicago.
Chowdhry’s anti-memorial exhibition reveals the violence that occurred then, specifically the sexual violence that was endured by women on both sides of the dividing line.
‘Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories’ uses Foucault’s theory of ‘Counter-Memory’ to artistically excavate this harsh period in India and Pakistan’s joint history.
Through experiential art installations that use mixed materials and the tension between open space and corporeal bodies, Chowdhry makes manifest the experiences of women in 1947.
Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Professor of Museum Studies at the UoF said, “Counter-Memory Project is the stuff of truth-telling, trauma-healing, and narrative-forging.”
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