“Bollywood is such a spectacle, an exaggerated drama,” TextaQueen tells me from the backyard of their studio, “It’s an interesting vehicle for me to flip it and talk about queer and trans South Asian experience. Not that queerness is a spectacle – but Bollywood has the capacity to really draw out some interesting tensions.”
Texta is working towards a major commission at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney. opens in October, an outcome of an eighty thousand–dollar commission in partnership with 4A and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, to support mid-career and established artists. This outcome will see Texta create a series of works featuring portraits
