Kate Just, THE AADAMBAR STRIVADI TRAVEL QUILT
Sanskriti Art Gallery
Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
2016
The Aadambar Strivadi (Kitsch Feminist) Travel Quilt was created on a 2016 Asialink residency at Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India. It takes the form of a memory or travel quilt comprised of detailed hand stitched fragments of text and image onto brightly coloured and heavily patterned local Indian fabrics sourced and inspired by my residency in New Delhi and travel in Jaipur, Chandigarh, Agra, Shimla and Kochi. To make the quilt, I stitched together images and stories of my own and others I met on my travels including poets, artists and activists, with an emphasis on queer, femme and feminist narratives. Included in the quilt are references to Hindu goddesses, transgender rights, texts gleaned from bride ads in local newspapers, advertisements for women’s health tonics and women run taxi companies, as well as slogans and signs at Delhi’s 2016 Queer Pride event.
-Kate Just