Convinced that identity is something each human being must self-invent via acts of intercultural \u2018bricolage,\u2019 in her works Mequitta Ahuja outlines a personal cosmology through the appropriation and fusion of heterogeneous and transcultural sources. Her painting style is characterized by female figures of color, who, albeit always her self-portraits, go beyond the traditional concept of the portrait as the description of the social context one belongs to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make these self-portraits the artist uses a process that she calls \u201cautocartography\u201d (hence Autocartography III<\/em>). This is a process that maps the artist\u2019s identity and heritage and that she carries out by drawing upon her Indian, African, and American roots, and combining allusions to religious iconography, popular mural paintings, ancient illuminated manuscripts, and Hindu miniatures. By merging non-Western artistic canons with Western ones, she adds her multiple identity and cultural experiences to the inner part of a universal art history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":378,"template":"","categorie_opere":[],"curatela":[33],"class_list":["post-1069","opere","type-opere","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","curatela-clarice-pecori-gilardi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n