PROTODISPATCH

PROTODISPATCH

A monthly digital publication of artists’ dispatches on the life conditions that necessitate their work.

CHITRA GANESH 




JUNE 15, 2023

EDUCATIONAL CHARTS, MYTHS, AND SOCIAL CONTROL

Chitra Ganesh

Artist Chitra Ganesh maps how the visual language of childhood is produced by powerful ideologies, unpacking a nearly ubiquitous Indian food chart as evidence of the Indian government’s attempts to systematically erase a multivalent, secular, and diverse India