{"uid":"Bs0855YKwJJ7CZkF","type":"curator","tags":[],"group":"yes","group_name":"Women in Arts Bangladesh","project_title":"Whiny Women: Mixed-Media Portraiture of Deshi Women","summary":"In our rapidly evolving world today, image has become dominant. Society is saturated with the visual \u2013 social media, horrific news cycles, celebrity culture, advertising. Appearance has always been tangled with ideas of worth \u2013 namely how much worth certain looking bodies are entitled to. When complicated by gender, class, race, sexuality, and power relations, appearance can give us insight into the structures of survival we\u2019ve been forced into navigating. \n\nBut what do the politics of being actually look like? What consequences do they have, particularly for \u201cwomanhood\u201d? Women cannot be denied \u2013 but how has this \u201cwoman\u201d been created? In a complex region as rich in heritage as South Asia, the idea of \u201cwoman\u201d has been historically reductive. Deep-rooted cultures of shame, silence, and stigma, on top of colonial histories, have estranged the relationship between the present moment and female bodied lived experience \u2013 she has become \u201cshameless\u201d, \u201cindecent\u201d, \u201cWesternized\u201d, \u201cundesirable\u201d, \u201ctoo loud\u201d, \u201chysterical\u201d, and \u201cwrong.\u201d \n\n\u2018Whiny Women\u2019 focused on the complexity, contexts, and critiques of these representations of the South Asian female form. The aim is to explore the diversity of representation within the home, workplace, pop culture, arenas of desire, and self-expression, highlighting not just the body, but the processes of how the body is created, viewed, and used. \n\nIt is open to artists of all genders and walks of life, and is not limited to visual arts.","space":"A standard open, light coloured space with the space for both around 20 paintings, 2 augmented reality digital art pieces, and 1 series of sculpture installations should suffice, with around 1000 sqft.","artists_proposal":"Alveera Rahman\nZarif Rashid\nFahim Arif\nBenzadid Gani\nZarin Subha Rodela\nPapia Sarwar Dithi\nVenessa Kaiser\nPracheta Ahana\nNoorin Asjad\nOhama Raaz","members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":11,"names":"Pracheta Ahana","surname":"Alam","email":"womeninartsbd@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"BE0842845","address":"Road 79, Plot 1\/C, Flat 203\/C, Gulshan 2","city":"Dhaka","nacionality":"Bangladeshi","country_id":"22","birthdate":"1997-05-05T18:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1997-05-05T18:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+8801797321395","web":null}