“My work emerges out of the radical politics of the 1980s, which was part of a move towards re-appropriating representational space for people identified as black, in my case as an attempt to reclaim the female Asian subject from the stereotypical roles of Western and Eastern patriarchal orders through domestic, cultural representations that I have sought to address using my own experiences.”
This exhibition features a selection of new etchings made at Cork Printmakers in 2021, using plates that ‘reproduce’ a variety of past works, after a residency carried out in late 2019. These prints epitomise Burman’s playful and ironic mode of aesthetic activism. Key themes include political events, ecology, racial segregation, consumerism, male dominance and tradition, and the visual motifs range from her father’s ice cream van to an Indian antique altitude-measuring device, an anti-meat manifesto, Indian warrior queens and pin-ups.