Conscience

Jonathan Baldock’s unsettling and disfigured puppets and quilted hand embroidered human figures, features, and body parts suggest the irony of a woman’s life. Though our society has progressed and so does women. With post Women’s Liberation Movement, the reforms have been propagated to liberate women, but still, few sections of our society, dominated by patriarchal mindsets, monopolizes the role of a woman. Jonathan’s work thus reminded me of the works of Indian artists like Chithra E. G., Krishna Murari, Hemi Bawa, and Bharti Kher, gyrating around subjection, objectification, and moral duties of a woman, with adhering to the norms set by the society.