Priyanka Kumar

MFA Printmaking

RESISTANT SILENCE

"The daughters of India are unwelcomed at their birth, untaught in childhood, enslaved when married, accursed as widows and unlamented at their death” (Weitbrecht 1880: 3).

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This work is part of a series of 100 plates etched and printed using viscosity technique.

Her
Viscosity print
4x5"

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These are part of a series  of 9 copper plates made with extended/deep etchings sugar lift, line etching, aquatint, spitbite and drypoint.

Nav Bhesh
Viscosity print
10x8"

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This work is made of large scale screen prints which represent the idolised iconography with factual fracture. My use of screen printing engages with mythological iconographies of the “ideal woman,”

Taaza Khabar, Fresh News
Screen print and monopirnt, mulberry paper
30x40"

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