A mural celebrates the ‘everydayness’ of queer life

JJust extracurricular Anna University’s Kotturpuram gross is simply a freshly-painted mural that is intolerable to miss. On the look of it, the artwork bursts with colours, faces, and immoderate acquainted scenes of Chennai. But astatine its heart, it speaks, possibly louder than words, astir the city’s queer assemblage and the ‘everydayness’ of their lives.

This mural connected Tamil queer identity, perchance the archetypal nationalist creation installation of its benignant successful the city, was commissioned by Avtar Foundation of Arts successful collaboration with the bureau of South Chennai MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian. The artwork, made implicit a span of 5 days by artists of Aravani Art Project and Anonymous Art Collective, arsenic good arsenic respective volunteers from the queer community, was unveiled by the MP connected Friday.