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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be speaking about her practice as part of the Penumbra Foundation’s Artist Series. Organized by Leandro Villaro, the series brings to life the work of featured photographers and other notable guest artists and scholars, offering a unique opportunity to engage with them in an intimate setting as they discuss their work and process.
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Penumbra Foundation
36 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
USA
Charan Singh and Sunil Gupta’s work is included in The New Art Gallery Walsall’s The World that Belongs to Us. The exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists, largely from the South Asian diasporas of the UK and Canada, activating a wide range of conversations around archival histories and narratives, identity and belonging, collaboration and community, storytelling, the influence of popular culture, the fusion of the traditional with the contemporary and queer histories and perspectives.
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The New Art Gallery
Walsall Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
UK
Bhupendra Karia and Serena Chopra’s works are included in Magazzino delle Idee’s survey exhibition Contemporary India, 18 photographers from Ghandi until today, curated by Fillipo Maggia.
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Magazzino delle Idee
2 Corso Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour
Trieste, TS 34132
Italy
Pamela Singh is included in Barbican Centre’s RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology. The major group exhibition, featuring around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists, explores the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
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Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London, EC2Y 8DS
UK
Charan Singh is one of the artists selected for New Contemporaries 2023, an annual survey exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The exhibition will launch at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool from 30 September to 16 December 2023 and then travel to Camden Art Centre from 19 January to 31 March 2024.
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Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street
Blackpool FY1 1PU
UK
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be in conversation with Dr. Francine Weiss, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Newport Art Museum, to discuss her work on the occasion of her recently released monograph, The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters Books and sepiaEYE, 2022).
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RISD Museum
20 N Main St
Providence, RI 02903
USA
sepiaEYE director Esa Epstein and artist Serena Chopra will be in conversation for Entwined: Nature and Spirituality explored through Photography. The talk is part of the Entwined exhibition, on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE.
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Gallery 8, 4 Cromwell Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2JE
UK
August 30 - October 05, 2023
Read moreAtul Bhalla’s work is part of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, on view at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The exhibition illuminates the cultural, religious, and political significance of water—beyond an extractive commodity framework—and draws attention to the legacy of colonial rule and imperialism in the climate crisis.
Bhalla will be part of the Water Stories: Panel Discussions, which will bring together artists whose works are represented in the exhibition with scholars of religion, anthropology, and transnational studies to explore water’s multivalent meaning and to contemplate our current relationships with water.
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Vivan Sundaram’s installation Memorial (1993-2014) was on view at Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building. Created in response to the violent conflict between Hindu and Muslim groups in Mumbai in the early 1990s, the work centers around a newspaper photograph of an unidentified victim lying on the street. With Memorial, Sundaram raised questions about erasure, collective memory, nationalism, and citizenship in post-colonial South Asia.
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Tate Modern
Blavatnik Building
Hopton Street
London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom
Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Minor Matters co-founder Michelle Dunn Marsh will be in conversation at the Griffin Zoom Room to discuss The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters / sepiaEYE, 2022), Matthew’s mid-career survey. The publication elucidates the progression of Matthew’s conceptual, installation-driven work using photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities.
The Answers Take Time
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Griffin Zoom Room
The Griffin Museum of Photography
Vivan Sundaram’s work is included in Come tu mi vuoi / As you want me, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive’s exhibition of works from the FMAV collections curated by the class of ICON 2022 (Course for Curators of the Contemporary Image).
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Fondazione Modena Arti Visive
Via Emilia 283
41121 Modena
Italy
Qiana Mestrich’s work is on view at Photoville as part of Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia, an international and intergenerational exhibition that blurs the lines between what is exterior and interior to reclaim the Black outdoors and rethink history and the ways African-Americans have been denied freedom.
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Photoville
Brooklyn Bridge Park
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is profiled in an essay by Bakirathi Mani titled The Living Archive: How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories? for in Aperture 251: Being & Becoming: Asian in America. This landmark issue considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.
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Being & Becoming: Asian in America
Aperture 251
Summer 2023
Qiana Mestrich’s project @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace is on view at the Counter Histories exhibition at Magnum Foundation. Featuring four artists from the 2022 cohort of Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories Fellowship, the exhibition incorporates bodies of work that began with an investigation into personal and familial histories. Each artist’s engagement of found archives prompted interventions into gaps in historical and familial records in order to create more inclusive, nuanced depictions of place, cultures, and community.
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Magnum Foundation
59 East 4th St, 7W
New York, NY 10003
USA
Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh, and Pamela Singh’s images are included at The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum's exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. The show explores the sari as a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.
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The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
London W8 6AG
United Kingdom
Pamela Singh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s works are on view at Hier Bin Ich / Here I Am, Kunsthalle Emden’s survey of self-portraiture by over 30 female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries across all artistic media.
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Kunsthalle Emden
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden
Germany
Vivan Sundaram’s new work will be on view at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the biennial will feature works by more than 150 artists presented at 16 venues across the emirate. Sundaram is one of 30 artists commissioned to develop new work to mark the Sharjah Biennial’s 30-year anniversary.
"Okwui’s proposition suggests a narrative that is dynamic yet recursive in an ethically accountable way. I present a photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued (2022), a choreography of bodies that have undergone violence, experienced incarceration, and lived through mourning. The sixth ‘station’ signifies a journey premised on the historical and rehearsed with activist resolve."
- Vivan Sundaram
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Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at Harvard Art Museum as part of their Reframe Initiative. The museum-wide program aims to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum by examining difficult histories, highlighting untold stories, and experimenting with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Serena Chopra’s The Tale of Time series in included in the new Partition Museum in Delhi, opening soon at the Dara Shikoh Library Building at Ambedkar University. The museum is the second Museum on the Partition of India, dedicated to creating a repository of artifacts, information and stories about the world’s largest migration.
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Partition Museum
Dara Shikoh Library
Ambedkar University
New Delhi
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series will be exhibited at the South Asia Gallery – Manchester Museum’s new gallery in partnership with the British Museum, co-curated by the South Asia Gallery Collective. It is the first permanent gallery in the UK dedicated to the South Asian diaspora, displaying material from the British Museum alongside South Asian collections in Manchester.
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Manchester Museum
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester