Subba Ghosh’s The Venuses at Home introduces us to a domestic setting in which two women from different generations sit beside each other, listening to a gramophone. However, there’s an uneasiness between the two figures. The usual accoutrements of a drawing room surround them and include a picture of a couple kissing each other, creating an edginess between the two. Has the picture of a kissing couple something to do with it? Do the two women share a common past, vis-a-vis the picture? Besides throwing open-ended questions like these, Ghosh’s printmaking—like his drawings—serves to emphasise his study of anatomy as well.
published references
Home is a Place: Interiority in Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 217
Subba Ghosh
The Venuses at Home
1991
Linocut on paper
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1991
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