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In
Siona Benjamina's Finding Home series, the
hybrid women mix up seemingly incongruous cultural
icons. Benjamin explores the relative permeability
of cultural membranes by drawing on her own experiences
of home and migration as a Bene Israel Jew who was
raised in India, but now lives in America. The ornate
and intricate visual language of her spiritual sources
-- Tantric art of ancient India, Indian miniature
paintings, Byzantine icons and Jewish religious art
-- resonates in these paintings. In this series, the women possess an inner power and strength, and a strong relationship to rituals, all with an underlying humor. More information at www.artsiona.com.
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