Living in a woman's body with artist Vasudhaa Narayanan

Episode 2 of the podcast is a conversation with Artist Vasudhaa Narayanan. We speak to her about her exploration of the politics of women's bodies and gender under caste in an Indian society. Looking at women's relationships with their bodies beyond shame and hate, and into a space of acceptance.This podcast episode was a special one for us as we got to speak with Vasudhaa in the gallery space, which held her new series of photographs - the show ‘spoiled fruit’ in the newly opened Fulcrum gallery in Bombay. Conversing intimately near her work, there was no escaping the intent of her imagery. The photographs, sound and the artist book that comprised the show spoke to us deeply, on the subject of the shame we hold, both internal and external, about our bodies; hoping for an eventual acceptance of who we are. The conversation took a similar flow, opening old wounds and revealing shared fears that we as women carry in our bodies, and how Vasudhaa has tried to reclaim the trust she shared with her body in her childhood through the making of this body of work.---Artist Portrait Credits - Nishant Saldanha