Identity: Pallavi Payal

“Art gives me the freedom to express what I see, experience and understand about life, about a sense of belonging, about identity and my own beliefs. I am trying to reimagine our traditions and culture, breaking the limitations created by social norms for better inclusion and representation of women.”

Pallavi Payal is a political researcher and a feminist Mithila artist exploring ideas to re-invent Mithila art in current times to try to explain the impact of the citizenship amendment bill on Madhesi women, the culture of silencing women and other patriarchal and misogynistic mind-set that affects the lives of women, through Mithila Art.