Rina Banerjee
Jack Fruit Johnny she was a Diasporic Devi who changed her name to taste like honey, changed her faith to sunny, changed sex to something funny, changed her city to New York City.
-all for reason, to be far, far away, from misery and war and for money.
2015
Cotton thread, paper mache vessal base, steel stand, vintage porcelain doll head, silk fabric with printing, porcupine needles , silver blue leaf, plastic trim
56 x 18 x 20 in.
Rina Banerjee
Jack Fruit Johnny she was a Diasporic Devi who changed her name to taste like honey, changed her faith to sunny, changed sex to something funny, changed her city to New York City.
-all for reason, to be far, far away, from misery and war and for money.
2015
Cotton thread, paper mache vessal base, steel stand, vintage porcelain doll head, silk fabric with printing, porcupine needles , silver blue leaf, plastic trim
56 x 18 x 20 in.
Rina Banerjee
Made of sugary sin and sweet greed she was wide eyed and relentless when plenty of nectar and flower brought also a mood much too sour, unleashed her, her all that was bad in power
2014
Acrylic, ink on wood panel
11 x 12 x 1.5 in.
Rina Banerjee
She would be a vision of Beauty if only...her complexion was whitened! As if to not to see her and separately see part of her only not as human body as not yet whole, not yet made, as illness, as a single flaw with intent to take away, save it with this so to cure( vanish cream) her of ugliness, oldness, blemishes, freckles, moles and race deliver her as a sign of brightness, lightness, crowned beauty is a defining system. Where her otherness could marked, has been crowned.
2019
Antique mirrors, cotton thread, alabaster bust, antique lace, antique piano stool, mesh grocery bag, buffalo horns
Dimensions variable
Rina Banerjee
She would be a vision of Beauty if only...her complexion was whitened! As if to not to see her and separately see part of her only not as human body as not yet whole, not yet made, as illness, as a single flaw with intent to take away, save it with this so to cure( vanish cream) her of ugliness, oldness, blemishes, freckles, moles and race deliver her as a sign of brightness, lightness, crowned beauty is a defining system. Where her otherness could marked, has been crowned.
2019
Antique mirrors, cotton thread, alabaster bust, antique lace, antique piano stool, mesh grocery bag, buffalo horns
Dimensions variable
Rina Banerjee
The tree flowered
2012
Acrylic and ink on paper
30 x 22 in.
Rina Banerjee
Unthinkable skirt
2015
Ink, acrylic, 23kt gold and copper on paper
14 x 10 in.
Rina Banerjee
Where I came from was water and salt and this is where I will go with bangles to tackle my human opponents and tangles of hair that snaked out of air her tongue and yours will know when to play with water, mountain and or air this no human laws shall come to rule
2015
Ink, acrylic, gold and copper on paper
14 x 10 in