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The ugliness of the appetite is made physical, turning the taking and devouring of another culture into something that can no longer be disguised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/b5c5b415-26cc-456c-a14d-d7d88df303ab/Reducation2-Rowena-Bahl-web.jpg The Things That Consume Us - Reduction Reduction: 2 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/067582ab-fd36-4ceb-ac59-506c77df2851/Gastly-Things-Rowena-Bahl.jpg The Things That Consume Us Will You Be My Muse? | photographic print, selected wall text and audio, 2026 Will You Be My Muse? begins with a refusal of expected beauty. Looking at the history of the artist and muse through the imperial male gaze, the poem questions who has been allowed to be beautiful, desirable and worthy of artistic attention, and what kinds of desire have been disguised as art. 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The work questions what it means to demand the removal of a people while continuing to embrace their spices, clothes, music, colour, food and beauty. The work uses consommé as part of its visual and linguistic logic: something materially various is clarified, reduced and made easier to consume. As the poem develops, them, you, we and me begin to collapse into one another, complicating the divisions the work begins with. In the photographs, the consumer becomes a goblin-like figure: greedy, grotesque and almost absurd. The ugliness of the appetite is made physical, turning the taking and devouring of another culture into something that can no longer be disguised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/b5c5b415-26cc-456c-a14d-d7d88df303ab/Reducation2-Rowena-Bahl-web.jpg The Things That Consume Us - Reduction Reduction: 2 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/067582ab-fd36-4ceb-ac59-506c77df2851/Gastly-Things-Rowena-Bahl.jpg The Things That Consume Us Will You Be My Muse? | photographic print, selected wall text and audio, 2026 Will You Be My Muse? begins with a refusal of expected beauty. Looking at the history of the artist and muse through the imperial male gaze, the poem questions who has been allowed to be beautiful, desirable and worthy of artistic attention, and what kinds of desire have been disguised as art. The work turns the idea of the muse away from passive beauty and towards the uncomfortable things that push us to keep looking and making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/d846ae9f-29b8-45e2-8153-c65cc583e0a0/Fish+final-v2.jpg The Things That Consume Us - Reduction Catch & Release | photographic print and wall poem, 2026 Catch & Release is about desire turning on itself. The catcher becomes the caught, the pursued becomes pursuer and wanting starts to look a lot like entrapment. Human, fish, predator and prey blur together until it is no longer clear who is holding whom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/17edce48-445e-4b63-8be6-06ea35774aaa/Elders-Ceremony-Rowena-Bahl-web.jpg The Things That Consume Us Elders Ceremony | photographic print and audio, 2026 An exploration of how wounds travel through families: violence, shame, grief and behaviours passed from one generation to another because nobody before us had the language, safety or capacity to stop them. https://www.rowenabahl.com/a-material-world daily 0.75 2026-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703645616-HP1WCBHG63Y8IIQTIPWG/Risk-you-me-4-web.jpg A Material World Don’t Tell Show: 1 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Don’t Tell, Show, explores literary authority, inherited rules around writing and the violence of being forced to consume forms of expression that do not belong to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703550503-7F0ZLSCYPZYCVOXIRHIU/Risk-you-me-2-web.jpg A Material World Don’t Tell Show: 2 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703646324-IW62R76EJ4JRL6IEOBKZ/Risk-you-me-3-web.jpg A Material World Reduction: 1 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Reduction was written in response to a rise in xenophobia in New Zealand and protests telling South Asian people to “go back to where they came from.” You do not get to consume a culture while disposing of its people. If you want us gone, you do not get to keep the spices, clothes, music, colour, food and beauty. The work uses consommé as part of its visual and linguistic logic: something materially various is clarified, reduced and made easier to consume. As the poem develops, them, you, we and me begin to collapse into one another, complicating the divisions the work begins with. In the photographs, the consumer becomes a goblin-like figure: greedy, grotesque and almost absurd. The ugliness of the appetite is made physical, turning the taking and devouring of another culture into something that can no longer be disguised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703895175-Y6ULCE787JLM3J498TWZ/Risk-you-me-5-web.jpg A Material World - Reduction Reduction: 2 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/c3a26449-163e-47a3-b4d1-a1e755a84734/Movement-7-Rowena-Bahl.jpg A Material World Will You Be My Muse? | photographic print, selected wall text and audio, 2026 Will You Be My Muse? begins with a refusal of expected beauty. Looking at the history of the artist and muse through the imperial male gaze, the poem questions who has been allowed to be beautiful, desirable and worthy of artistic attention, and what kinds of desire have been disguised as art. The work turns the idea of the muse away from passive beauty and towards the uncomfortable things that push us to keep looking and making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/6542a374-d28a-438e-bfae-98707c4011c1/Movement-2-Rowena-Bahl.jpg A Material World - Reduction Catch & Release | photographic print and wall poem, 2026 Catch & Release is about desire turning on itself. The catcher becomes the caught, the pursued becomes pursuer and wanting starts to look a lot like entrapment. Human, fish, predator and prey blur together until it is no longer clear who is holding whom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703645616-HP1WCBHG63Y8IIQTIPWG/Risk-you-me-4-web.jpg A Material World Don’t Tell Show: 1 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Don’t Tell, Show, explores literary authority, inherited rules around writing and the violence of being forced to consume forms of expression that do not belong to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703550503-7F0ZLSCYPZYCVOXIRHIU/Risk-you-me-2-web.jpg A Material World Don’t Tell Show: 2 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703646324-IW62R76EJ4JRL6IEOBKZ/Risk-you-me-3-web.jpg A Material World Reduction: 1 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Reduction was written in response to a rise in xenophobia in New Zealand and protests telling South Asian people to “go back to where they came from.” You do not get to consume a culture while disposing of its people. If you want us gone, you do not get to keep the spices, clothes, music, colour, food and beauty. The work uses consommé as part of its visual and linguistic logic: something materially various is clarified, reduced and made easier to consume. As the poem develops, them, you, we and me begin to collapse into one another, complicating the divisions the work begins with. In the photographs, the consumer becomes a goblin-like figure: greedy, grotesque and almost absurd. The ugliness of the appetite is made physical, turning the taking and devouring of another culture into something that can no longer be disguised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703895175-Y6ULCE787JLM3J498TWZ/Risk-you-me-5-web.jpg A Material World - Reduction Reduction: 2 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/c3a26449-163e-47a3-b4d1-a1e755a84734/Movement-7-Rowena-Bahl.jpg A Material World Will You Be My Muse? | photographic print, selected wall text and audio, 2026 Will You Be My Muse? begins with a refusal of expected beauty. Looking at the history of the artist and muse through the imperial male gaze, the poem questions who has been allowed to be beautiful, desirable and worthy of artistic attention, and what kinds of desire have been disguised as art. The work turns the idea of the muse away from passive beauty and towards the uncomfortable things that push us to keep looking and making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/6542a374-d28a-438e-bfae-98707c4011c1/Movement-2-Rowena-Bahl.jpg A Material World - Reduction Catch & Release | photographic print and wall poem, 2026 Catch & Release is about desire turning on itself. The catcher becomes the caught, the pursued becomes pursuer and wanting starts to look a lot like entrapment. Human, fish, predator and prey blur together until it is no longer clear who is holding whom. https://www.rowenabahl.com/forgotten-sikh-women daily 0.75 2026-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703645616-HP1WCBHG63Y8IIQTIPWG/Risk-you-me-4-web.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women Don’t Tell Show: 1 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Don’t Tell, Show, explores literary authority, inherited rules around writing and the violence of being forced to consume forms of expression that do not belong to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703550503-7F0ZLSCYPZYCVOXIRHIU/Risk-you-me-2-web.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women Don’t Tell Show: 2 of 2 | Photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703646324-IW62R76EJ4JRL6IEOBKZ/Risk-you-me-3-web.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women Reduction: 1 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 Reduction was written in response to a rise in xenophobia in New Zealand and protests telling South Asian people to “go back to where they came from.” You do not get to consume a culture while disposing of its people. If you want us gone, you do not get to keep the spices, clothes, music, colour, food and beauty. The work uses consommé as part of its visual and linguistic logic: something materially various is clarified, reduced and made easier to consume. As the poem develops, them, you, we and me begin to collapse into one another, complicating the divisions the work begins with. In the photographs, the consumer becomes a goblin-like figure: greedy, grotesque and almost absurd. The ugliness of the appetite is made physical, turning the taking and devouring of another culture into something that can no longer be disguised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/1789703895175-Y6ULCE787JLM3J498TWZ/Risk-you-me-5-web.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women - Reduction Reduction: 2 of 2 | photographic diptych and audio, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/c3a26449-163e-47a3-b4d1-a1e755a84734/Movement-7-Rowena-Bahl.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women Will You Be My Muse? | photographic print, selected wall text and audio, 2026 Will You Be My Muse? begins with a refusal of expected beauty. Looking at the history of the artist and muse through the imperial male gaze, the poem questions who has been allowed to be beautiful, desirable and worthy of artistic attention, and what kinds of desire have been disguised as art. The work turns the idea of the muse away from passive beauty and towards the uncomfortable things that push us to keep looking and making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bf7757e4b0f6e03b8949ec/6542a374-d28a-438e-bfae-98707c4011c1/Movement-2-Rowena-Bahl.jpg The Forgotten Sikh Women - Reduction Catch & Release | photographic print and wall poem, 2026 Catch & Release is about desire turning on itself. The catcher becomes the caught, the pursued becomes pursuer and wanting starts to look a lot like entrapment. 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