The womb as artefact and artwork
May 16, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello May 16, 2022
The discovery of a votive uterus in a museum prompts an enquiry about the organ as a potential site of lost female subjectivity.
Rosalyn (she/her) is an author, art critic, columnist, researcher, lecturer and editor. She is an Ocean Fellowship 2021 Mentor, and was an evaluator for the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2020. She is a recipient of the India Foundation for the Arts research grant (2019-2020) which has been supporting her writing based on her visits to South Asian artists' studios, the subject of her forthcoming book for Oxford University Press. She writes a weekly feminist column for mid-day and is a regular contributor to OPEN.
Of tigers and wolves: two films tackling conservation from an ecofeminist lens
Apr 25, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 25, 2022
Indian scriptwriter Aastha Tiku’s film, Sherni, shares ideological resonances with a work-in-progress by a South Tyrolean museologist and researcher duo.
What do artistic manifestations of maternal exhaustion in late-capitalism look like?
Mar 11, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 11, 2022
Mother-artists are visualising the heretofore invisibilised corporeal and emotional fatigue of care-giving through diverse materials rooted in embodied subjectivity.
The Art of the Cookbook
Feb 05, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Feb 05, 2022
The late artist Martha Murphy’s culinary labour of love celebrates the housewifely and the matrilineal.
Word of Mouth
Jan 08, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Jan 08, 2022
The visual, performing, and literary arts offer the most room for unspoken, intergenerational, gestural forms of citational practice within the feminist domestic.
Museumising racism
Dec 10, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 10, 2021
A recent visit to two Austrian museums threw up critical questions about display strategies and lack of transparency about provenance.
Indigenizing the gaze
Nov 06, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 06, 2021
A recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien uses radical curatorial hospitality to dismantle Western supremacist frames of visioning the world.
The unbearable whiteness of othering beings
Oct 01, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 01, 2021
Steirischer Herbst 2021 invests in spectacle, but skips opportunities for radical inclusiveness.
Botanical Belonging
Sep 03, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 03, 2021
Various artists using different media are invested in the same question: can our collective salvation lie in surrendering our fallible human agency and allowing, instead, for awe?
Earthworms, termites, women, mollusks and sandalwood
Aug 21, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 21, 2021
How can feminist art historians unearth, excavate, reconsider and recontextualise the non-canonised, quasi-mystical practices of female and other-than-human artists.
The San Marino Factor
Aug 04, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 04, 2021
The least visited country in Europe serves as the setting for the latest edition of the nomadic Mediterranean biennale.
Transposing Home
Jul 14, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 14, 2021
Taloi Havini’s recently unveiled site-specific installation at Ocean Space, Venice, locates the visitor within a complex ontological framework of indigenous place-thought.
Five moments of transcendence at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
Jul 01, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 01, 2021
In part two of the series, despite the crowded displays and the repetitious Manthropocene discourse at the VAB 2021, the writer experienced instances of elevated calm and pleasure.
How will we smash the patriarchy by living together?
Jun 23, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 23, 2021
Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 sidesteps from framing more damning questions even as it offers moments of poignant reflection, explores the author in the Part 1 of two-part series.
Bootlegging Books
Jun 11, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 11, 2021
A recent addition to my library, Simon Browne’s index cards straddle the line between thesis, artwork, and object.
Staying Alive
May 20, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello May 20, 2021
A show in Graz, Austria, provokes reflections on diverse urban, subjective experiences of time.
Art & Voices Matter: Artistic suppression…myth or fact?
May 03, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello May 03, 2021
How do artists cope with strangulating environments that insidiously erase their right to express their subjectivities?
Grist for the Mill
Apr 30, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 30, 2021
Ongoing since 1987, the Grindmill Songs Project lovingly archives the resilience of rural Maharashtrian women farmers in the face of patriarchal, caste-based oppression.
Remembering being there
Apr 10, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 10, 2021
Encountering a video portrait of Nikhil Chopra on Art Dubai’s website brought back memories and incited my curiosity about what he’s currently up to.
In the name of the mother
Mar 25, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 25, 2021
Feminist artistic, critical and philosophical discourses situate fermentation as a queer site for contamination, collaboration, and transformation.
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The art of making art seen through the lens of serving and consuming food
Aug 10, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 10, 2020
What happens when the production or consumption of food lies in the centerpiece of an artwork or performance? Can an artistic focus on feeding lead to a more inclusive society?
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