Fair Enough

 

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My work explores cultural intersections often mirrored in everyday texts and phrases, questioning their origins and existence. It engages with the politics of the body—race, gender, and patriarchy—and with pedagogy in post-colonial India. Although my country India has long been freed, the residual effects of these hegemonies, like the erosion of identity, remain active and detrimental.

 

This performance is an attempt to question the use of the word “fair” in the phrase “fair enough,” which is commonly used in England. I hope this work made the viewer ponder and question why good (enough) is equalized to (color) fair.

 

Coming from a country where a majority covet a fairer skin tone, the irony is not lost on me. Taking it a step further, I have tried to play and question around how fair is fair enough, how much fairer do I need to be to be fair enough, or should I say good enough?

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