Women Archetypes
Sajitha Shankar's series on archetypes revisits the sources of feminine generative power in Indian myths, rituals, folklore, devotional streams, art and literature. From Akka Mahadevi to the Mother Roots, the series limns the trajectory of feminine figures rising in autonomy with a will of their own, shaping an alternative reality different from the mundane. In re-visioning the feminine archetypes, Sajitha's work inserts the autobiographical, resulting into the multiplicity of selves in flowing connectivity between the human and nature, the inside and the outside. In this process, one recognizes akind of time travel of the selves in the deeper layers of cultural memory
Akka Mahadevi series 2008,acrylic on canvas size 9feet/3feet
women archetypes 2006 acrylic on canvas 7feet / 3feet
cite des arts studio ,France 2006
women archetypes 2006 acrylic on canvas 7feet / 3feet
women archetypes 2003 mixed media on paper 7feet / 3feet
women archetypes(on Akka Mahadevi) 2007 charcoal on paper 8feet / 6feet
women archetypes 2003 charcoal on paper 6feet / 3feet
show at alliance francaise, chennai ( collection of NGMA,Newdelhi)
Cholamandal studio. when i started women archetypes
women archetypes 2008 charcoal on canvas 3feet / 3feet
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