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captures the story of young Indian boy who longs to own a horse and is filmed against the backdrop of an
English period home. Biswas is also keen to use humour and satire in her work. In her painting 'The Last Mango in Paris' depicting two women talking and peeling mangos the caption below reads.
173:. Biswas often draws from myths and iconography from ancient Hindu mythologies, speaking of the symbolism she says 'I want people to research into my culture, as I've been doing into European and Western culture'. In 1985, Biswas's work was exhibited at the
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As a conceptual artist, Biswas works in a variety of mediums, including performance, film, photography and installation. During the 1980s, Biswas was primarily a painter. For instance, her paintings
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she was created to inhabit more than one representation (hence her multiple appearances in the performance) to rid the world of evil, which is here embodied by
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She is keen to use her work as a platform for people to begin to address their own racism. Biswas was the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the
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Sutapa Biswas's works often reflect on questions of gender and cultural and ethnic identity. For instance, her film
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in London from 1988-1990. From 1996 to 1998, Biswas studied at the
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an exhibition of young Black and Asian women artists curated by
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