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In Portraits: Indian Women In Never-Seen-Before Avatar

In Portraits: Indian Women In Never-Seen-Before Avatar

by The Daily Eye Team April 26 2016, 3:45 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

In the summer of 2012, Nimisha Bhanot discovered her fondness for portraits. The 27-year-old Canadian visual artist didn’t want to paint just any kind of portraiture—she wanted those representing totally badass, liberated, independent Indian women
“I think all women are badass. What makes the women in my paintings exceptionally badass is that they are free to be whatever and whoever they want to be,” Bhanot told Quartz in an email.
The Toronto resident has begun a series of paintings called Badass Indian Pinups. As a woman originally from South Asia, her work “explores the perception of self and societal roles from a bi-cultural perspective,” she said.

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