Suchitra Mattai

Mixed Media - A Podcast by Kavi Gupta by Kavi Gupta

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Episode 3 | In The Margins | Suchitra Mattai | In this episode, Guyanese-American artist Suchitra Mattai unpacks the word marginalization and discusses the freedom, hope, and joy sometimes offered by outsider status. Mattai’s circumstances have positioned her on an assortment of margins. As an immigrant and a woman who has struggled with illness and spent most of her career living and working far from the main art market centers, Mattai maximized the space and time offered by her outsider status to materialize one of the most idiosyncratic, subversive, and joyful visual positions in contemporary art. Mattai’s newest solo exhibition recently opened at Kai Gupta | Elizabeth Street in Chicago. Titled Osmosis, the exhibition features work that employs salt as a sculptural medium. The material empowers Mattai’s aesthetic expressions of emergence and l ... 

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