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Understanding South India, Kolam by Kolam - Chantal Jumel - Center for Soft Power
The recent Pongal festival saw the lanes of Mylapore in Chennai adorned with kolams of different kinds. The grey asphalt glowed with the white powder, as the transient kolam was ...
Aparna Misra
Intricate kolams that inspire artistic idiom
Kolam is the soul of Tamil social life, interwoven with its cultural and humane consciousness. Tracing the soul of Tamil Nadu through Kolams and Sangam poetry is what researcher-artist Chantal Jumel has been doing for...
Art at the threshold
Margazhi in Chennai is synonymous with sabha-hopping, piping hot delicacies and early morning pulli kolams.
Vaishali Vijaykumar
Traditional kolams need to be revived" , Chantal Jumel has been doing research on kolam and floor paintings for 15 years now. She came to Chennai from France in 2010 and continued her research in a few villages. Chikku and padi kolams are her favourites among the 40 design she knows. “I live in France and came to India when I was 19 years old to learn dance.
A French connection to kolams!
Chennai has an enthusiastic visitor from France every year, during Margazhi season. Meet Chantal Jumel
Niveda Manohar
Into the world of floor paintings
Chantal Jumel, traveller and researcher in Indian Visual and Performing Art talks about the unique traditional Indian floor paintings and why the rich legacy needs to be taught in art schools
A. ShrikumarConnecting The Dots Outside Our Homes
Drawing a kolam is an everyday chore for many women but how many are aware of its aesthetics, and what the dots signify? Through pictures and lectures, French photographer Chantel Jumal enlightens us...
Roshne B
Kolam Diaries and the Language of Om
’Unbound Line That Traverses Elements,’ an exhibition by French artist Chantal Jumel, is inspired from a gamut of topics that range from contemporary issues to Upanishads to the ephemeral kolam...
Janani Sampath
The search for the secret oasis
Chantal Jumel’s ongoing show at Apparao Galleries plays on the idea of repetition as leading into deeper truth
Sujatha Shankar Kumar
Floor, a fleeting canvas
An avid student of kolam, Chantal Jumel found that the pictorial ritual tradition combines aesthetics with philosophy.
Pushpa Chari
When kolams went West…
MEET French researcher Chantal Jumel who through her workshops and videos has introduced the art of kolam to Europeans and Americans
HEMA VIJAY
Spotting a French mami in Mylapore | Chennai News - Times of India
It’s a tough task to spot Chantal Jumel in the crowd of mamis that has gathered near the Kapaleeswarar temple for the Mylapore festival kolam contest.
Sharanya Gautam
