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Women at Leisure | An Art Exhibition by Jayati Bose

Aug 15 - 18 2024 – 6:00pm-10:00pm

About the event

Jayati Bose’s art exhibition envisions women indulging in leisure, showcasing what life could be like when leisure is the norm, not a rarity. Step into a reimagined world where women reclaim their time, joy, and freedom.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Jayati Bose’s Ongoing art essay ‘Women at Leisure’ sheds light on the pervasive reality of women in Indian households, where patriarchal norms dictate that they manage household chores alone while men enjoy leisure without constraint. In many middle and upper-middle-class families, women rarely experience true relaxation, often finding brief moments of self-care only in beauty parlors or shopping trips—sometimes having to fabricate reasons just to step out of the house. Cultural expectations celebrate men’s entitlement to rest, while women, even during family leisure time, are expected to serve. Jayati’s series challenges this narrative, depicting women reclaiming their time and joyfully engaging in activities like bicycling, playing cards, painting, and socializing with friends, free from the burden of household duties. The images present a powerful reimagining of women’s lives, where leisure is not a rarity but a norm. By portraying women in moments of unbridled freedom and fun, the series questions the oppressive systems that dictate their lives and offers a vision of what could be—a world where leisure is equally accessible to all.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jayati Bose, a contemporary artist of Bengali origin, has established herself as a promising figure in the realm of watercolor painting. Her work exclusively features women and captures the essence of nostalgia, Bengali culture, leisure, and beauty through a distinct color palette characterized by muted tones. Bose’s paintings serve as a captivating representation of femininity, evoking a sense of timelessness and tranquility. Bose’s choice of medium—watercolors on paper — enables her to convey emotions and themes with a delicate, ethereal quality. The medium enhances the fluidity and softness of her subjects, allowing them to exude an aura of grace and elegance. The use of watercolors also lends itself well to Bose’s preference for muted colors, adding depth and subtlety to her compositions.

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DAY 1 – 15th August, 2024: https://rb.gy/ce8nat
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In collaboration with

IFBE

The Ice Factory at Ballard Estate (IFBE) is an experimental laboratory for transdisciplinary practices across modern and contemporary architecture, art, and pedagogy. The conserved and refashioned structure is itself a historical object; its complexity, diversity, and paradoxical forms of architecture are instruments for the invention of knowledge. Malik Architecture has created an architecture that does not settle, one with spaces to breathe through a crystallization and mutation of traditional, modern, and contemporary experiments. A century-old embodiment... of “the dreams that stuff is made of.” IFBE’s community of architects, artists, scholars, and students exists in the expanding complexity and multiplicity of the present without sacrificing a fidelity to pasts and archiving, to build and chronicle in the here and now, what Reinhard Koselleck felicitously called “futures past.”