CAG 2015-18
AXIAL MARGINS
Revue Collective (Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee)
Urdu Park, Jama Masjid
Revue (Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjoy Chaterjee) has been working with the homeless women at the Government Night Shelter in Urdu Park, Jama Masjid, Old Delhi since 2014. This night shelter consists of a large tin structure in the middle of a bare open ground, flanked by the busy streets of Old Delhi.
With little space to cook, eat and sleep, there is certainly no room for creative outlets within the tight space of the shelter, for the over 20 women living together, often along with their little children.
Reshma stands in front of her paintings that depict various food items they love, at the women’s night shelter, Jama Masjid.
Led by experienced community artist Sreejata Roy, the women have gradually been drawing, painting and practising community cooking at the shelter. They have built a strong bond of trust among them, and with Sreejata in the process.
They have drawn recipes of the food they most loved, in the homes they have long left behind, and then made large paintings and murals of the routes they traverse around Jama Masjid and the particular sites in the lanes and monuments, that hold meaning for them.
Binu, Parveen, Rabina, Reshma, Ritu, Sabina, Sabrun, Shehzadee, Sunita, Tarannum have produced beautiful artworks that have been exhibited in Edinburgh Festival 2022, India Art Fair 2017, British Council and Bikaner House in Delhi. ​
This engagement has given the women an outlet for individual creative expression, allowing them to explore their lives, their current space and relationships with people and the environment around them positively.
They have developed a regular painting practice and a distinct vibrant visual language.
The women have shared their artworks at Open Day Events within their shelter home, putting up their paintings, telling stories and cooking for everyone.
About the grantees
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Revue (Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee) is a two member team of an artist and a media practitioner. Revue document the changes in the city and study how these changes affect peoples’ lives. Revue also explore, adapt and create spaces.