This performance ‘Marry My Egg’ gives motion imageries of a woman sitting on a chair, portraying a plate full of pouched eggs, dressed in a very festive bridal red sari with golden jewellery. This act is a metaphor for women and her fertility. Visitors, while I was performing, were curious by this unexpected and extraordinary act where I, as an artist, was dressed as a traditional Bengali bride. I used food to refer to consumption, fertility, power, and sexuality.
The thought provoking act describes women in our society being judged by the fertility as they are growing older. It is a challenging period what most women go through where they are pressurized to get married within a particular age.
I wanted to make the society realize that the character who is performing would rather eat up all her own eggs and celebrate her own marriage and fertility. This sarcastic act has drawn visitors’ interest toward Bangladeshi art as not only just a wall-mounted piece, but also as a creative expression that depicts the underlying social traditions to explain a situation, also taking a valid stand on the subject.
