Chitra Ganesh's work explores how memory and its repression shape moments of personal and social crisis. Through installation, photography, and drawing, her work integrates personal and postcolonial narratives, challenging dominant representations of the postcolonial subject. Ganesh's source materials include Greek and Hindu mythology, 19th century portraiture, Bollywood posters, comic books, and mainstream media. Using collage, assemblage and digital manipulation, her work takes historical narratives apart at the seams, allowing suppressed histories and mythologies to emerge from within the very texts that seek to erase them.

The body becomes a site of social conflict, where collisions of anxiety, loss, and contradictory historical narratives assume a material form. Its doubling, splitting, fragmentation, and drive to self-immolation indicate the rupture that takes place when disjunctures are made visible.

For the past two years, Ganesh has been following the career of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who recently died in the space shuttle accident. Ganesh's installation at Momenta will consider the possibilities of exploration without conquest.

Chitra Ganesh received an MFA from Columbia University in 2002. Her work was recently included in the group exhibition 637 Feet of Running Wall at the Queens Museum, Queer Visualities at Stonybrook University, NY, and Shaken and Stirred at Bose Pacia Modern Gallery in New York.