NO ROOM TO PRAY

A NEW EXHIBITION BY ARTIST PUSHPAMALA N. BOLDLY CHALLENGES MAINSTREAM IDEAS OF FOLKLORE, RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY

- Deepali Dhingra

“The most entertaining artist-iconoclast of contemporary Indian art.

” Read any article or write-up on Pushpamala N. and chances are that you will come across this line to describe the photo and video performance artist, sculptor, writer and curator. In fact, her own website uses the line in her biography. Ask the artist about its origins and she says she doesn't recall who said it first, but agrees with it enough to use it in her bio. “I use a lot of humour in my work and I want to be entertaining. My work is iconoclastic because I'm trying to deconstruct icons and critique the mainstream,” she says.

Her exhibition