Visual artist Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé turns pink rice into an archive of Indian and Surinamese identity
Visual artist Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé uses dyed pink rice to explore the intersection of Surinamese-Hindustani identity and Western pop culture. Her exhibition at Method in Delhi serves as an archive of memory, migration, and the visual aesthetics of the 1990s and 2000s.
Why it matters
The work provides a unique cultural perspective on the diaspora experience and the way historical archives can be reinterpreted through contemporary art.
There is something almost mischievous about Angel-Rose’s pink rice creations. It sits behind perspex, dyed pink, looking at first like confectionery or confetti or the aftermath of a children’s party. Then you notice the photograph, the television image, and then the rice again. By the time you have made the circuit, the object has acquired the uncomfortable density of an archive .
This is the trick the artist likes to play: make you look at something because it is pretty, and then make you stay because it is not.
Angel-Rose’s works on display at Method, Delhi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
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