Curious art
German intersex artist Ins A Kromminga is in India to exhibit his/her art at the Nigah Queer Festival '09 that opens on Friday
Anindita Ghose
http://www.livemint.com/2009/10/22215412/Curious-art.html?h=BIns A Kromminga has just arrived in Delhi. He/she met artist and curator Sunil Gupta earlier this year at a queer arts forum in Spain. On seeing Kromminga's drawings and learning that he/she was keen to exhibit in India, Gupta invited the intersex artist to the Nigah Queer Festival that will open on Friday and run through 1 November in New Delhi. The 10-day festival is organized by Nigah—a Delhi-based queer collective that works on issues of gender and sexuality.
When we meet, Kromminga is already at work creating an onsite installation for the visual art exhibition as part of the festival. One corner of Siddhartha Hall at Max Mueller Bhavan, where the exhibition will be held, hosts a gigantic organic form that seems to be all tentacles and germinating buds. On this, the artist will paste around 40 of his/her charcoal and watercolour paintings that follow various gender-related themes drawn from mythology and pop culture.
