The project includes a series of exhibitions, each covering a different aspect of the Partition. Her latest, Broken Column: Monuments of Forgetting, is an anti-memorial that triangulates public monuments in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, through artistic interventions. It also juxtaposes the counter-memories of the Partition of India, and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The primary sites for her research were Jallianwala Bagh memorial in Punjab, Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore, and Martyred Intellectuals monument in Rayer Bazar, Dhaka.

“For the Broken Column anti-memorial, I have made latex and silicone casts of the stairs, walls, doors, and ornaments, capturing details and textures of intimate spaces within the larger architecture of monuments. The silicone and latex casts are like the ‘skin’ that make the ‘body’ of the monument accessible in a corporeal manner,” she says.

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Each location took a few weeks to create, recalls Chowdhry, who embarked on the project in 2011, when she first travelled to Lahore to make the cast for Minar-e-Pakistan. “Getting permission from local authorities to make the cast of monuments has been the most difficult and challenging part of this project. I needed to travel to specific cities, and source materials locally, and stay on  the site to make the casts.”

WHAT: Broken Column: Monuments of Forgetting
WHEN: Till mid-April
WHERE: www.artshowinternational.com/artists/pritika-chowdhry