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Debjani Banerjee review: is that a Henry hoover – or a Hindu deity?
Bluecoat, Liverpool Banerjee’s blend of British suburbia and ancient Bengali traditions is an imaginative portrayal of the artist’s dual heritage – and questions how we preserve culture today The stories we are told shape the world in which we live. If your father had insisted you watch all 94 episodes of a television adaptation of the Mahabharata when it was screened on the BBC, as Debjani Banerjee’s did, it’s easy to imagine that your family’s Henry hoover might come to resemble Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity with a similarly long trunk. My own Irish mother meant that I was always hearing banshees at my bedroom window, as if she had brought them over to England with her. In a sense, she had. And so, Banerjee’s charming sculpture of a vacuum cleaner as the god of new beginnings, situated at the heart of this witty and moving exhibition, reflects an imagination shaped by 1980s
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Bluecoat, Liverpool Banerjee’s blend of British suburbia and ancient Bengali traditions is an imaginative portrayal of the artist’s dual heritage – and questions how we preserve culture today The stories we are told shape the world in which we live. If your father had insisted you watch all 94 episodes of a television adaptation of the Mahabharata when it was screened on the BBC, as Debjani Banerjee’s did, it’s easy to imagine that your family’s Henry hoover might come to resemble Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity with a similarly long trunk. My own Irish mother meant that I was always hearing banshees at my bedroom window, as if she had brought them over to England with her. In a sense, she had. And so, Banerjee’s charming sculpture of a vacuum cleaner as the god of new beginnings, situated at the heart of this witty and moving exhibition, reflects an imagination shaped by 1980s
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According to The Guardian’s linked source, Debjani Banerjee review: is that a Henry hoover – or a Hindu deity?, Bluecoat, Liverpool Banerjee’s blend of British suburbia and ancient Bengali traditions is an imaginative portrayal of the artist’s dual heritage – and questions how we preserve culture today The stories we are told shape the world in which we live. If your father had insisted you watch all 94 episodes of a television adaptation of the Mahabharata when it was screened on the BBC, as Debjani Banerjee’s did, it’s easy to imagine that your family’s Henry hoover might come to resemble Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity with a similarly long trunk. My own Irish mother meant that I was always hearing banshees at my bedroom window, as if she had brought them over to England with her. In a sense, she had. And so, Banerjee’s charming sculpture of a vacuum cleaner as the god of new beginnings, situated at the heart of this witty and moving exhibition, reflects an imagination shaped by 1980s
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