Date & Time
4:00pm EDT - 6:00pm EDT
About This Event
Join us for the Closing Reception of The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness
Musical Offerings | 4:00 PM
Performed by Joyjit Ghosh, musician and sound healer, born in India. A soft opening into sound — Ghosh invites guests into an informal space of resonance, with guitar, gongs, and Himalayan singing bowls. This is a time for gentle conversation, curiosity, and shared vibrations.
Exhibition Walkthrough | 4:30 PM
Artist Indrani Nayar-Gall will guide a final passage through the exhibition — a contemplative walkthrough that illuminates the collective’s vision and voice, one last time.
Contemporary Dance Offerings | 4:50 PM
A stirring performance of contemporary Indian dance by Kaustavi Sarkar, PhD — a Dance faculty member at UNC Charlotte whose movement speaks across time and tradition.
Kaustavi will present two contemporary pieces from The Epilogue, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project combining video and live performance, coordinated by Indrani Nayar-Gall.
Closing Meditation | 5:10
The evening deepens in stillness. Joyjit Ghosh returns with “Sonic Meditation: Healing Sounds of Gaia” — an immersive experience woven from gongs and the ancient tones of Himalayan singing bowls, carrying us gently toward the event’s close.
The Paglees is a feminist collective of artists of South Asian origin living across the United States. Paglee or pagli means crazy woman in a number of South Asian languages. The Paglees are: Shelly Bahl, Monica Jahan Bose, Fawzia Khan, Renluka Maharaj, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Nirmal Raja, and Pallavi Sharma.
The Paglees investigate – with fierceness, beauty, and wit – the impact on women of generations of patriarchy, religion, white supremacy, colonialism, violence, capitalism, and environmental plunder.
The title of the exhibition derives from Rosa Parks’ words: “There is just so much hurt, disappointment and oppression one can take. The bubble of life grows larger. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.” (Rosa Parks: Writings, Notes and Statements,1956-58).
Featuring mixed-media works on paper, fabric, and canvas, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, and moving image, The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness, questions and reframes the labeling of non-conforming women as crazy and the marginalization of immigrant women of color. This collective exhibition presents new decolonial narratives that center the reason and wisdom of brown women of the Global South and diaspora, and provide pathways to a creative feminist future. The Paglees believe in working in collaboration with other marginalized communities to build bridges and demand social, environmental, and legal justice for all.
The exhibition was previously exhibited at the South Asia Institute in Chicago, IL.
The Paglees color the lens of collective feminism - Chicago Reader
Featured Artists:
Shelly Bahl, NYC.
Monica Jahan Bose, Washington, DC.
Fawzia Khan, Hopkins, MN.
Renluka Maharaj, Boulder, CO.
Indrani Nayar-Gall, Charlotte, NC.
Nirmal Raja, Cambridge, MA.
Pallavi Sharma, San Ramon, CA.
Additional Events:
May 22: Opening Reception + Artist Talk
June 12: Guest Talk with Art Historian Melia Belli Bose
About This Event
Join us for the Closing Reception of The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness
Musical Offerings | 4:00 PM
Performed by Joyjit Ghosh, musician and sound healer, born in India. A soft opening into sound — Ghosh invites guests into an informal space of resonance, with guitar, gongs, and Himalayan singing bowls. This is a time for gentle conversation, curiosity, and shared vibrations.
Exhibition Walkthrough | 4:30 PM
Artist Indrani Nayar-Gall will guide a final passage through the exhibition — a contemplative walkthrough that illuminates the collective’s vision and voice, one last time.
Contemporary Dance Offerings | 4:50 PM
A stirring performance of contemporary Indian dance by Kaustavi Sarkar, PhD — a Dance faculty member at UNC Charlotte whose movement speaks across time and tradition.
Kaustavi will present two contemporary pieces from The Epilogue, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project combining video and live performance, coordinated by Indrani Nayar-Gall.
Closing Meditation | 5:10
The evening deepens in stillness. Joyjit Ghosh returns with “Sonic Meditation: Healing Sounds of Gaia” — an immersive experience woven from gongs and the ancient tones of Himalayan singing bowls, carrying us gently toward the event’s close.
The Paglees is a feminist collective of artists of South Asian origin living across the United States. Paglee or pagli means crazy woman in a number of South Asian languages. The Paglees are: Shelly Bahl, Monica Jahan Bose, Fawzia Khan, Renluka Maharaj, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Nirmal Raja, and Pallavi Sharma.
The Paglees investigate – with fierceness, beauty, and wit – the impact on women of generations of patriarchy, religion, white supremacy, colonialism, violence, capitalism, and environmental plunder.
The title of the exhibition derives from Rosa Parks’ words: “There is just so much hurt, disappointment and oppression one can take. The bubble of life grows larger. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.” (Rosa Parks: Writings, Notes and Statements,1956-58).
Featuring mixed-media works on paper, fabric, and canvas, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, and moving image, The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness, questions and reframes the labeling of non-conforming women as crazy and the marginalization of immigrant women of color. This collective exhibition presents new decolonial narratives that center the reason and wisdom of brown women of the Global South and diaspora, and provide pathways to a creative feminist future. The Paglees believe in working in collaboration with other marginalized communities to build bridges and demand social, environmental, and legal justice for all.
The exhibition was previously exhibited at the South Asia Institute in Chicago, IL.
The Paglees color the lens of collective feminism - Chicago Reader
Featured Artists:
Shelly Bahl, NYC.
Monica Jahan Bose, Washington, DC.
Fawzia Khan, Hopkins, MN.
Renluka Maharaj, Boulder, CO.
Indrani Nayar-Gall, Charlotte, NC.
Nirmal Raja, Cambridge, MA.
Pallavi Sharma, San Ramon, CA.
Additional Events:
May 22: Opening Reception + Artist Talk
June 12: Guest Talk with Art Historian Melia Belli Bose
Date & Time
4:00pm EDT - 6:00pm EDT