Students' Biennale 2021: Alternative Views on Gender Constructs for Women

Vidya, through her black, voluptuous, soft sculptural objects, condemns..

..the unauthorized censorship of women’s freedom of choice and conduct in their private and public life.

Bodies are also wrapped in black and scorched..

..denoting the domestic violence women face and speak not of.

Trishla constructs things that may seem like miniature architectural models..

..but are in fact the interiors of a woman’s imagination.

Walls transmute to planes of thoughts..

..and open to chambers of unrestricted imagination.

The complexities she has derived through a combination of watercolor, gouache and pigments...

..represent the depths of one’s thoughtful comprehensions.

Suggestions of branching trees and roots in her drawings..

..extend and expand the notion of liberation from seclusion.

Helna Merin Joseph carves figures and objects in relief onto plain wood and paints them with acrylic colour to make them come alive.

Helna makes relief images of woman to express the paradoxes of society.

Images of women in various daily activities and the items they use are carved delicately, according to the grain of the wood.

She captures the patterns and colours in vivid detail.

The domestic scenes show where Helna's women live, work and play.

She has carved miniature multicoloured worlds.

In the carvings, the women seem to be contemplating domestic obligations..

..the tasks that they are compelled to in the home.