Fursat ki Fizayen is a reclamation of space, rights and aspirations, bringing forth multiple narratives around women’s leisure in the visible public domain, and encouraging women’s participation in public space.
Leisure experiences for women in the city are often determined by the intersection of gender with other identities producing exclusion in complex ways. It is seen when women spend their leisure time, they construct their identities using space to express themselves and interact with others. Fursat ki Fizayen, explored this dialectical relationship between leisure and space by engaging young, single, working women to reflect on how they think and construct their own images in the public domain. Participatory place-making and image-making being powerful tools for social empowerment were used to foster ownership and belongingness for their created environments.
I collaborated with Artists Divya Chopra and Rwitee Mandal in this project to create a mural in this space.
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