Baltic presents the first major UK solo exhibition in a public institution of Chitra Ganesh. Journey to the Great Below features a new animation, newly commissioned sculptural works and a site-specific wall drawing, alongside a selection of recent paintings, prints, works on paper and mixed media works.

For this exhibition at Baltic, Ganesh will premiere a new large-scale animation titled Journey to the Great Below, inspired by what is widely considered to be the world’s oldest recorded myth, The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld. Written c. 1900–1600 BCE in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), the story follows Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of love, fecundity, and war, also known as the ‘Queen of Heaven’, on her treacherous journey to face her sister (and darker half) Ereshkigal, the ‘Queen of the Underworld’. The poem describes Inanna’s confrontation with death and her eventual return to the world of the living