In the early 1970s, Navjot and her husband, Altaf, joined the Progressive Youth Movement (PROYOM), engaging with Marxist activities while being sympathetic to political parties that had similar agendas. Between the mid-1970s and mid-’80s, Navjot’s artistic output took the form of pen and ink drawings while working on posters for PROYOM to raise awareness about the famine in Maharashtra as well as the Vietnam war. Supper, made during the Emergency, is a comment on imbalances in the power structures; the authoritative man with a straight face is seen cutting into his food, which is actually the head of another human being.
published references
Home is a Place/ Interiority in Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 207 A Place in the Sun: Women Artists from 20th Century India (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 126
Navjot
Supper
1976-77
Ink on paper
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1976-77
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