Suchitra Mattai
This fully illustrated catalogue features Mattai’s powerful art on view at NMWA in Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter. An essay by critic Aruna D’Souza and a Q&A between the artist and NMWA Assistant Curator Hannah Shambroom appear alongside full-color imagery. Texts illuminate her art and the ways that her practice challenges traditional colonialist narratives.
This publication accompanies the exhibition Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (September 20, 2024 - January 15, 2025).
Published by National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2024
Format: Softcover, 9 x 11 inches / 112 pages
English
ISBN: 978-0-940979-57-4
By Mark Jenkins
When introducing viewers to her Indian heritage, Suchitra Mattai is also reconstructing it for herself. The title of the multidisciplinary artist’s ambitious National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, “Myth From Matter,” encapsulates her process. Mattai repurposes Indian artifacts — often old saris — to weave a vision of her ancestral homeland.