Featured Events:
Guest Talk with Art Historian, Maria Belli Bose – June 12, 2025, 6 – 8pm secure.qgiv.com/for/exhibitions/event/pagleesbose/
Closing Reception + Music Performances – June 28, 2025, 4 – 6pm secure.qgiv.com/for/exhibitions/event/pagleesclosing/
The Paglees are 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: Fawzia Khan, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Monica Jahan Bose, Nirmal Raja, Pallavi Sharma, Renluka Maharaj, and Shelly Bahl.
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.
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.
This exhibit will be on display between May 22 and June 28, 2025 at the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC. Find out more by visiting mccollcenter.org/events/the-paglees-between-reason-and-madness
