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Pritika Chowdhry. The Crooked Lines, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Digitally printed dupioni silk panels, walnut ink, embroidery thread. 24" x 10" x 6" each panel.
Parchisi Panel showing a section of the Partition borderline of Germany, between East and West Germany.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007, ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, about 1000 sq. ft. installed dimensions.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007. ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, another view.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007, ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, close up view.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007, ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, close up view.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007, ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, the feet slippers of Mother India.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Queering Mother India, 2007, ceramics, raw clay, wood, paper, footprints left by the migrating caravans.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, dupioni silk, tassar silk, tea-dyed cotton, handmade paper, surgical sutures, pig guts, turmeric, walnut ink, wire, embroidery thread, wood, chess set, and parchisi set, 1000 sq. ft. installed dimensions.
Location: Nature Morte gallery, Berlin.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, dupioni silk, tassar silk, tea-dyed cotton, handmade paper, surgical sutures, pig guts, turmeric, walnut ink, wire, embroidery thread, wood, chess set, and parchisi set. 1000 sq. ft. installed dimensions. Location: Nature Morte gallery, Berlin.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Ringa-Ringa-Roses II, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, tea-dyed khaddar cotton, burnt map lines, wire, wax. 10' x 10' x 10'. Location: Nature Morte gallery, Berlin.
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Pritika Chowdhry. The Shadow Lines I, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Handmade paper kites, kite sticks, walnut ink, surgical sutures, wax. 14" x 14" x 10' each.
Close-up of a kite with a section of the Radcliffe line near Wagah-Atari showing the Partition of Punjab in India.
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Pritika Chowdhry, The Shadow Lines III, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Handmade paper kites, kite sticks, pig guts, hair, stitching. 14" x 14" x 10' each.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Ringa-Ringa-Roses II, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Tea-dyed khaddar cotton, burnt map lines, wire, wax, 18" x 14" x 10'.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Ringa-Ringa-Roses II, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Tea-dyed khaddar cotton, burnt map lines, wire, wax, 18" x 14" x 10'.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Ringa-Ringa-Roses I, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10. Tassar silk, wire, embroidery thread, hair, wax. 10' x 10' x 10'.
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Pritika Chowdhry, The Crooked Lines, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, digitally printed dupioni silk panels, walnut ink, embroidery thread, wood, pillows, dice and discs set. 24" x 10" x 6" each panel, installed dimensions 10' x 10' x 10'. Parchisi Panel made of Dupioni silk, with map digitally printed and then hand painted, and hand-embroidered, mounted on a wooden stand.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Lines of Control, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, digitally printed silk panels, conte crayons, ink, full chess set, pillows, 24" x 24" x 8" each panel.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Lines of Control, part of Remembering the Crooked Line, 2009-10, digitally printed silk panels, conte crayons, ink, full chess set, pillows, 24" x 24" x 8" each panel.
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Pritika Chowdhry. Memory Leaks, 2014, etched copper pots, burnt newspapers and books, water, prayer mat. 120 in. x 120 in. x 120 in. installed dimensions, installation view.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2104, close-up of dharapatra etched "Kashmir Insurgency: 1989 - 1991".
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, close-up of dharapatra etched "Nellie, Assam, 1983" dripping water into a havan containing burnt books.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Moradabad riots of 1980.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Baroda riots of 1982.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Biharsharif riots of 1981.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Nellie, Assam riots of 1983.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Rourkela, Calcutta, and Jamshedpur riots of 1964.
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Pritika Chowdhry, Memory Leaks, 2014, Anti-memorial to the Babri Mosque riots in Bombay, in 1992-93.
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Doris Salcedo, Unland, 1995–98, installation view.
Courtesy: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
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Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, 1996, drywall, shoes, cow bladder, and surgical thread, 47 x 83 1/16 inches.
Courtesy: ICA Boston
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