Dr Sangeeta Sandrasegar
The fruit of her labour , 2012
Watercolour on paper
41 x 30 cm
Emerging from a return to Malaysia in 2012 after 25 years away this suite of watercolours is based upon the Pontianak – a female ghost of Malaysian folklore. Avery Gordon writes: The ghost is not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating (that social figure …leads) to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life.
Emerging from a return to Malaysia in 2012 after 25 years away this suite of watercolours is based upon the Pontianak – a female ghost of Malaysian folklore. Avery Gordon writes: The ghost is not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating (that social figure …leads) to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life.