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{{Infobox artwork
|title=Navjot's Untitled
|artist=[[Navjot Altaf]]
|medium=carved [[teakwood]], metal, and [[indigo]]
|image_file=(Untitled) The Blue Lady Sculpture.jpg
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'''''Untitled''''', more commonly referred to as '''''The Blue Lady''''', 1999–2002, is a carved [[teak]]wood, metal, and indigo [[sculpture]] by [[Mumbai]]-based artist Navjot Altaf.<ref name="blog">[http://blog.rom.on.ca/2011/05/bright-oriental-star-south-asian-video/ "Last Chance to See Bright Oriental Star"]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''Royal Ontario Museum''. May 20, 2011. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.</ref><ref>Posner, Michael. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/potential-crystallizes/article957937/ "Potential crystallizes"], ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. February 13, 2008. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.</ref> The artwork represents a goddess of [[fertility]] and is painted bright blue, a traditional [[Hindu]] colour symbolizing [[divinity]].<ref name="rom">[http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-channel/iconic-blue-lady "Iconic: Blue Lady (Video)"], ''Royal Ontario Museum''. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.</ref> The larger than life sculpture is also an illustration of the "challenges faced by women who try to claim recognition for their knowledge in parts of [[India]]."<ref name="blog" /> This contemporary [[South Asian]] work can be seen in the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery of The [[Royal Ontario Museum]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada. Notably, the sculpture is listed as one of the ROM's iconic treasures<ref name="rom" /> and has been considered to be one of the most important pieces in the museum's collection of South Asian art.<ref name="nuktaartmag">Mitra, Srimoyee and Siddiqui, Ambereen. [http://www.nuktaartmag.com/Nukta/GeneralContent/View/144 "Scratching the Surface: Talking About Contemporary South Asian Art in Toronto"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109090648/http://www.nuktaartmag.com/Nukta/GeneralContent/View/144 |date=2015-01-09 }}, ''[[Nukta Art Magazine]]''. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.</ref>

In 2003, (Untitled) ''The Blue Lady'' was exhibited at [[Talwar Gallery]] in [[New York City]], which currently represents Altaf, in her first solo exhibition in the [[United States]] entitled ''In Response To...''. The sculpture was installed alongside other human figures, similar in their monumental scale and brilliant [[indigo]] color, in what was an almost theatre-like setting; together, the solid, confident female figures became iconic presences, whose insistent physicality worked to "subvert...the narrative of patriarchal dominance and transcending the modes of art practices."<ref>"Navjot Altaf: In Response To...", Talwar Gallery, http://talwargallery.com/navjotresponse-pr/.</ref> The exhibition was instrumental in illuminating the gender-based concerns of Altaf's work, which questions the accepted language of eroticism, sexuality, and domesticity through the creation of figures, like (Untitled) ''The Blue Lady'', of anomalous femininity.

== Description ==
The sculpture explores contrasting ideas in South Asian culture while providing a contemporary take on traditional South Asian art. The wood from which the statue is crafted, along with the indigo blue colour that it is painted, are symbolic nods to the handicraft industries of South Asia. The buxom female form is also seen readily in historical South Asian arts. Through the combination of the handcrafted and industrial, the past and present are brought together and contrasted without a recognizable resolution.<ref name="rom" />

Among the influences cited for this sculpture are, "village witch-trials, fertility goddesses, and the indigo trade."<ref>[http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/world-cultures/sir-christopher-ondaatje-south-asian-gallery "Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery: Level 3"], ''Royal Ontario Museum''. Retrieved on 19 February 2013.</ref> The sculpture is also referred to as "Kunti", after a woman in the Adivasi community in Bastar, [[India]] that was part of Altaf's inspiration for the artwork.<ref name="blog" /> In this case, the woman was declared a witch and put on display to be humiliated in public.<ref name="nuktaartmag" /> Altaf describes this real-life woman, Kunti, as a normal, confident woman, who was dehumanized for possessing knowledge.<ref name="rom" />

Altaf started off by drawing the figure, then used clay to model it. The final sculpture, based on the clay model, is carved out of [[teak]]wood. Since it was not possible to carve the entire sculpture from one piece of wood, Altaf carved the torso and head as one piece, while the arms and legs have been carved separately.<ref name="rom" /> The body of the sculpture is not clothed, but bare. Her hands are stretched in [[mudra]]; one fist clenched, thumb outside fist, and the other hand open.<ref>Lal, Preeti Verma. [http://www.indiapost.com/india-found-in-torontos-museums/ "India found in Toronto’s museums"], ''[[India Post]]''. July 27, 2012. Retrieved on 19 February 2013.</ref> This symbolizes that she has knowledge in the grasped hand, and has the ability to receive more, while also dispersing information with the other open hand.<ref name="rom" /> ''The Blue Lady'' sits atop a vintage bottle drying rack; the inspiration for which Altaf drew from artist [[Marcel Duchamp]]'s [[Readymades of Marcel Duchamp|readymades]], specifically his first [[Readymades of Marcel Duchamp|readymade]], the bottle drying rack.<ref name="rom" />

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://talwargallery.com/navjotresponse-pr/ Talwar Gallery, ''Navjot Altaf: In Response To...'']

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