Flowback | Mequitta Ahuja November 21, 2008

Flowback | Mequitta Ahuja
November 8, 2008 – Janaury 10, 2009
Project Space

Mequitta Ahuja is of mixed ethnic origin, South Asian and African American. Her works are self-portraits. Mequitta’s visual explorations include the interplay of figure and ground, the symbolic significance of blackness, and the social implications of Black hair. In response to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, she makes the image of hair both corporeal and conceptual, giving it psychic proportions. With medium and image, Mequitta proposes that identity, including racial and sexual identities, although narrowly defined by social norms, is both fluid and plural. Mequitta’s works demonstrate female self-invention through the deployment of her own tools, including, her creative imagination.

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