Wednesday 4 December 2013

Out of the different art forms we saw in class the one that stood out for me was the work by Huma Mulji. Her work is simple, in that it only employs two dolls, but by placing it in different settings it becomes telling of much more. By involving by standers in the final photographs her work denotes the place that the show of affection has in our society, where publicly it is both something that is uncomfortable and a source of wonder. What makes it all the more interesting is the use of play things, dolls which are innocent as they are used for child play. By undressing them and setting them up in sexual positions she upsets these connotations making the viewer all the more uncomfortable.
After class I took a look at some of the other photos she has taken and found this image, titled Full Mood Mein, particularly captivating.
Here is a combination of the gaze in which such activity finds it self caught in, and further surrounded by the religious pressures as denoted by the word "Allah" written inside the rickshaw. 

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