For Eyes of Time, Chitra Ganesh paired her own site-specific work with a curated selection of object

For Eyes of Time, Chitra Ganesh paired her own site-specific work with a curated selection of objects from across Brooklyn’s encyclopedic collections.  In the gallery, these works are showcased in a vitrine along with texts written by Ganesh, commenting on how these pieces from our Egyptian, Asian, American, and Contemporary collections expand on ideas central to her practice and this specific installation. We thought it would be great to share these insights and surprising connections with our audiences beyond the gallery. Each month till the show closes in July, we will highlight a collection object included in Eyes of Time and Ganesh’s thoughts on why it was selected: Kiki Smith is known for her ongoing engagement with bodily matter and the female form, often through fairy tales and folklore. The title of the set to which this lithograph belongs—Banshee Pearls—combines terms with very different connotations. Pearls have long signified upper-class elegance and femininity, while a banshee is a female spirit in Irish mythology whose chilling screams and ghostlike pallor are omens of death. The word banshee is still used to describe women or girls who are seen as wild or inappropriately behaved. Here, repeating deathlike masks of a female face ask the viewer to consider how female power relates to beauty and the grotesque. — #ChitraGaneshPosted by Saisha M. GraysonImage [Kiki Smith (American, b. Germany, 1954). Untitled from Banshee Pearls, 1991. #Lithograph, 221⁄2 x 301⁄2 in. (57.2 x 77.5 cm). #BrooklynMuseum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 1999.17.3. © Kiki Smith] #BKMContemporary -- source link
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