Tracing Figures of Presence, Naming Ciphers of Absence: Feminism, Imperialism, and Postmodernity in the Work of Sutapa Biswas

Griselda Pollock, 1992

“It is one of the privileges of teaching fine art degree courses that I work in the presence of artistic practice. The challenging relations between art making and theoretical or historical reflection on and research in art history, when not kept in strictly segregated time zones, allow for a dialogue that can creatively alter each side. This article is a product of one such moment of exchange in which the relations between teacher and student, artist and art historian, structured and then recast two women’s engagement with their practice, its politics, and the question of art.”

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