Southern siren: Maheshwari

Tejal Shah

Shah is a visual artist who primarily works with video, photography, performance, sound and installation. She expresses her ideologies through her work which mainly focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, identity and politics. The protagonists of her work are often women and transgendered or transsexual individuals who have been marginalized by society. Using the bodies of her subjects, she references and transcends ‘otherness’ in her work. Other than exploring gender and sexuality, Shah also explores concepts of religion, national identity, self and community often countering India’s celebrated status of being the world’s largest democracy.