WEEK 5

This chapter discuses  a woman in the slum called"Fatima""the one leg"woman, because she was born with only one leg and shamed and kept hidden by her parents till she was married off."All I heard was that I had been born wrong"P 72.I talk about the Monsoons,consistently throughout this blog and it relates to the book about ECO Art that the Research class is reading. Because of the long damaging rains"daily wage workers braced for hunger"during this time...the rains lasted 4 months"for a week the rain came down like nails"but for the one leg woman,it was twice as hard labor to use crutches and get around in the soft muddy soil.She became mean and angry and using the crutches constantly to hit her children and her much older husband.During the days she took men callers even while her children were in the hut. No one could go outside during these times.Then her young sister dies,she had drowned in a pail at the age of 6 and Fatima's daughter witnessed this...But young girls in the slums died all the time so one became immune to this.and even worse that sickly children in the slums were"done away with" because of the cost of their care could ruin a family for life.But after her sister died Fatima also became liberated.She drew on black dramatic eyebrows on her face and put white powder on her cheeks.She seemed to feel  beautiful with the men whom she invited into her hut. and her husband worked 15 hours during the day sorting trash and then was treated like trash by Fatima at night.The constant longing to leave the slum and the extreme difficulties arise all the time espeically for women and girls.Six months ago, five contemporary European abstract artists were invited by Ashwin Thadani, founder of Galerie Isa, to showcase their vision of the monsoon through artworks. As the season approached, the works arrived, and are currently on display, as part of The Monsoon Show.

Monsoon inspires innovative 'found object' art exhibition

• Soma Das, Hindustan Times, Mumbai
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• Updated: Jul 03, 2015 07:32 IST

Old-cassette-tapes-modelling-clay-LED-lights-one-man-s-junkyard-is-another-man-s-art-proves-a-group-exhibition-at-Galerie-Isa.Six months ago, five contemporary European abstract artists were invited by Ashwin Thadani, founder of Galerie Isa, to showcase their vision of the monsoon through artworks. As the season approached, the works arrived, and are currently on display, as part of The Monsoon Show.

Four of the seven artworks used recycled day-to-day items. German artist Gregor Hildebrandt is known to make art out of music cassettes; Welsh artist Dan Rees makes art using Plasticine (modelling clay) and Artex (a building material); Russian-Tunisian artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke takes imprints of walls that are hundreds of years old and transfers it on to her artwork; German artist Anselm Reyle uses found objects such as LED lights, car lacquers and foils and reinvents them through her works.

The exhibition also showcases artwork by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s water-colour and pencil-on-paper work; Eliasson has previously worked with elemental materials such as light and water. Also featured are works by Spanish artist Oliver Roura, whose leitmotif is geometric shapes reminiscent of microscope slides.