Killer Queen

80cm x 90cm x 60cm
Steel, stone, Indian hair extensions, tape, bindi. 2020

This sculpture was produced on the Scott Mead residency at the British School at Rome. In the sculpture Killer Queen Rana-Allen reimagines the head of snake-haired Medusa interwoven with the Indian goddess Kali and Remi’s Great Aunt, who was the first Indian woman to be sentenced to be hanged for the 'accidental' murder of Rana-Allen's great grandfather in colonial Kenya in 1949. Through the myth, the goddess and the autonomous feminist the sculpture represents a powerful Indian woman cast as the evil other.