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Blum Reddy maps identity and religion at two ends of a time scale, defining both modernity and the contemporary through the prism of feminism. She pokes fun at the iterations of male modernism and painting by illustrating the train tables and bureaucratic committees of New Delhi, India, where national identity is defined by the same inefficient committees assigned to build economic infrastructure and eradicate poverty. But identity is not always national. Blum Reddy was born to parents who escaped the holocaust by emigrating from Vienna to New York. She married Krishna Reddy in France, and references to India have recurred in her artistic career ever since. But is she Indian? Blum Reddy uses feminist conceptualism to question notions of straightforward identity across various mediums, emphasising the complexities of life behind the barriers and definitions of ‘the nation’.
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