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Manifest
Indu Antony2012
Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India
Quick Gun Murugan is one of the works of Indu Antony from her project Manifest. This is the story of how thirteen queer women aimed to capture the raw masculine energy and style in them and sneaked out of their female bodies. They dreamed drag to bend gender. Being drag kings was of course a pleasurable pursuit, but to them, it was more about erasing restrictive gender boxes.
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Details
- Title: Manifest
- Creator: Indu Antony
- Date Created: 2012
- Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
- Location Created: Chennai
- Type: Photograph
- Original Source: Artist Website
- External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
- Exhibition title: An unbearable lightness of being
- Exhibition Description: A sense of dystopia, unease, maybe even giggly laughter, hysteria, melancholy, or even pictures of the unnoticed
- CPB Edition: 2019
- Artist's biography: Indu Antony is an artist based out of Bangalore, India. Born and raised in a conventional Indian family from Kerala, India, she overcame various social obligations to pursue her forms of expressions. She has hence been working with individuals from the fringes of the society. Her work comprises of understanding feministic stands which gives way to performances and installations.
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