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Curator’s Perspective: Suchitra Mattai

Event Details

Event Date and Time

Wed, Oct 23, 2024
6 to 7 pm ET

Tickets and Reservations

Free. Members Only. Reservation Required.

Location

Online

A needlepoint depicting, in profile, a seated, young girl with medium skin tone and dark hair in a yellow dress reading a book. A halo of black beads surrounds her bowed head.
In this members-only presentation, Assistant Curator Hannah Shambroom discusses NMWA's newest exhibition.

Event Description

About the Event

Join us for this special virtual event in which Hannah Shambroom shares behind-the-scenes insights about Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter. In her multidisciplinary artistic practice, Suchitra Mattai (b. 1973, Georgetown, Guyana) explores and complicates understandings of binaries such as East and West, art and craft, and history and memory. The way certain histories are remembered, or not, is central to much of her art. This exhibition pairs Mattai’s recent work, including mixed-media installation and sculpture, with historical objects sourced from nearby collections in Washington, D.C. For the first time, this exhibition provides the opportunity for a visual call and response between historical objects and Mattai’s contemporary work.

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Accessibility

Automated Captioning

This event will have automated speech-to-text transcription. The text will be displayed in the event video window, and attendees can turn captioning on or off throughout the program.

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