When ‘The Naked and the Nude’ met Durga

The first artwork we looked at was , a large, semi-nude statue of the Hindu goddess Durga. The statue depicts a triumphant goddess standing tall and proud over the body of a slain buffalo demon. Her many hands hold a variety of different weapons. She also wears relatively little clothing; her breasts are in full view, and she is adorned with jewelry. When we first saw her, we assumed she was being sexualized due to her lack of clothing, but Associate Curator Kurt Behrendt told us that the statue was created to praise and honor the goddess, not to sexualize her.

Looking again with a new perception, we understood what Behrendt meant. Even though she is depicted clad in nothing more than a loose, jewel-adorned skirt, Durga’s strong gaze and posture shows that she was respected as a powerful warrior. Her stance over the defeated buffalo demon shows her prowess in battle while retaining her beauty. Overall, we found that the statue portrays Durga as powerful despite the fact that she is nude. We could see that she was feared, awed, worshiped, and exalted.

Why does Durga’s nudity overshadow her story? Both of these figures slayed an evil entity while nude, but we saw them differently. When we looked at Perseus, we recalled only his victorious battle. His nudity was ignored and his story absorbed. When we looked at Durga, we focused on her body and not on her triumph over the demon. Is there a problem with our perception?

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