Over the last seventeen years, Sutapa Biswas, one of the leading artists of her generation, has created an intensely evocative and challenging body of work. She has engaged with feminism, culture and identity, and memory. Biswas draws from a variety of literary, critical and visual sources to capture particularly still moments in time. Her influences include Proust's and Edward Lear's writings, Frantz Fanon's psychoanalysis, and paintings by Vermeer, Hopper and Stubbs, among others. Says Gilane Tawadros, director of the inIVA ( Institute of International Visual Arts ), “Sutapa Biswas makes art of caustic beauty...bringing together the political and the aesthetic.”