Why painted skin is this artist’s armour against body politics from indian group photo Watch Video
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Description: The Thaipusam festival is supposed to be a time of celebration for the Tamil Hindu community. But at the event in Malaysia in 2017, the women who attended were met with a threat. “We were told that if we wore our traditional attire with too much skin showing, a particular group of men would come and attack us with spray paint,” Rupa Subramaniam recalls. As an Indian woman living in the country, she realised that if people could be so audacious, then she could be just as bold in her retaliati
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