Chitra Ganesh graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art Semiotics. Her concerns with language are evident in her work. Images of bodies and words are unhinged from their normal significance and raise questions about the representation of gender, sexuality and power. Enigmatic female figures populate Ganesh’s oeuvre: there are women with eyes as nipples, severed limbs, and hybrid features. Ganesh uses these figures to further her investigation into alternative narratives, explaning: “the body becomes a site of transgression, both social and psychic, doubled, dismembered and continually exceeding its limits.”