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PINK SILLY BUBBLY AND NAUGHTY THEY FLOATED OUT OF EURASIA READY FOR EXPLOSIONS, 2009
Ink and acrylic on watercolor paper
30 x 22 inches
Private collection
Photo: Courtesy Haunch of Venison, New York and London |
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| Rina Banerjee |
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Born 1963, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)
Lives and works in New York |
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Born in Kolkata and raised in New York, Rina Banerjee offers intimate insight on the diaspora and the experiences of individuals separated from their homelands. She explores the blurred lines between ethnicity, culture, and gender against the backdrop of today’s technology-driven world. As in Pink Silly Bubbly and Naughty They Floated Out of Eurasia Ready for Explosions, she often embraces a fairytale of color and texture undercut by provocative content. This painting on paper is at once delicate and grotesque. Figures merge in and out of each other and their surroundings. According to scholar Elaine Ng, this imagery represents “a more politically-engaged attempt to address the transmission of disease and more specifically the AIDS epidemic through her birth country, India.”1 Recent statistics reveal that India has the third largest HIV-infected population in the world.
1Elaine W. Ng, “Mãrvelløus Beïngs: The Wörk of Rina Banerjee,” in Rina Banerjee, forévér fõreign (New York: Haunch of Venison, 2010), p. 25. |
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