Unit London, Webinar

Join Suchitra Mattai and exhibition curator, Rebecca Hart, for a webinar on Thursday 13 January at 5pm GMT in which they will discuss Mattai’s extensive artistic practice and influences behind her multimedia works.

Suchitra Mattai’s debut solo exhibition with Unit London presents an exploration of monsters in their various forms. Navigating spaces of myth, fantasy and memory, Monster delves into how otherness and monstrosity intertwine.

“Suchitra Mattai confronts biases by naming them and opening a visual and conceptual arena where she creates a spectacle that lodges in our psyches. She invites us to explore our own monsters, especially how we are involved with othering and mental health metrics. Her Indo-Caribbean heritage and feminist position inform choices for materials and symbols that resonate deeply, inviting empathetic identification with her subject, the monstrous.”

— Rebecca Hart, (previously Modern and Contemporary Art Curator for the Denver Art Museum)

Rebecca Hart is an independent curator with nearly thirty years worth of practice in public institutions, leading the contemporary art department for the Denver Art Museum (DAM) and Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).

Gif Images: (1) Suchitra Mattai, womb, 2021, Vintage saris, fabric, 3-d printed celestial figure sculptures, 224 x 185 cm. (2) Suchitra Mattai, Womb, (detail), 2021. (3) Suchitra Mattai, Guardian, 2021, Vintage saris and gate, 488 x 122 x 122 cm. (4) Suchitra Mattai, Guardian, (detail), 2021. (5) Suchitra Mattai, woman seated on blue chair (with racing thoughts), 2021, Embroidery floss and beads on found fabric with trim, 45 x 45 cm. (6) Suchitra Mattai, woman seated on blue chair (with racing thoughts), (detail), 2021.