An ongoing anti-memorial art installation project brings light to the traumatic geopolitical events that occurred in the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. Pritika Chowdhry uses her skills as a visual artist to bring light to what many people have forgotten. Learn more at https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/broken-column
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Pritika Chowdhry's Anti-Memorial Art
Highlights The Partition Of India and Pakistan
Pritika Chowdhry's anti-memorial
project “Broken Column: The
Monuments of Forgetting”
triangulate monuments in India,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh through
latex and silicone casts.
Chowdhry first began the Partition Anti-Memorial Project in 2007 and has
since created ten site-specific, research-based art installations about
different aspects of the Partition.
Her exhibit includes latex and
silicone casts ofJallianwallan
Bagh memorial, India, Minar-
e-Pakistan monument,
Pakistan, and Martyred
Intellectuals Memorial,
Bangladesh.
Chowdhry explains that
her goal is to create a
quietly provocative and
experiential environment
for viewers of her art
exhibit.
memorials are
currently being
exhibited at the South
Asia Institute in
Chowdhry, whose
grandparents survived the
1947 Partition, explained that
her art is meant to repair and
heal, and raise collective
awareness of the events 1947
and 1971.
Broken Column remains an
ongoing project and will
continue spreading
awareness about the
Partition of India, 1947 and
the Bangladesh Liberation
War, 1971.
Learn more at
https://www.pritikachowdh
ry.com/broken-column
Highlights The Partition Of India and Pakistan
Pritika Chowdhry's anti-memorial
project “Broken Column: The
Monuments of Forgetting”
triangulate monuments in India,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh through
latex and silicone casts.
Chowdhry first began the Partition Anti-Memorial Project in 2007 and has
since created ten site-specific, research-based art installations about
different aspects of the Partition.
Her exhibit includes latex and
silicone casts ofJallianwallan
Bagh memorial, India, Minar-
e-Pakistan monument,
Pakistan, and Martyred
Intellectuals Memorial,
Bangladesh.
Chowdhry explains that
her goal is to create a
quietly provocative and
experiential environment
for viewers of her art
exhibit.
memorials are
currently being
exhibited at the South
Asia Institute in
Chowdhry, whose
grandparents survived the
1947 Partition, explained that
her art is meant to repair and
heal, and raise collective
awareness of the events 1947
and 1971.
Broken Column remains an
ongoing project and will
continue spreading
awareness about the
Partition of India, 1947 and
the Bangladesh Liberation
War, 1971.
Learn more at
https://www.pritikachowdh
ry.com/broken-column