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Suchitra Mattai, Demerara Dreams, 2019, gouache, acrylic, my Mother’s sari, and fabric, 66” x 52”
Suchitra Mattai, Demerara Dreams, 2019, Gouache, acrylic, my Mother’s sari, and fabric, 66 x 52 in.

Suchitra Mattai at Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada 'Fragments of Epic Memory'

1 September 2021 - 21 February 2022

Gallery artist Suchitra Mattai's work Demerara Dreams (2019) is included in the group exhibtion Fragments of Epic Memory at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

 

Fragments of Epic Memory will invite visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today. 

The first exhibition organized by the AGO’s new Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, it will blend historical and contemporary narratives, presenting more than 200 photographs from the AGO's Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings, sculpture, and video works by modern and contemporary Caribbean artists that show how the region’s histories are constantly revisited and reimagined through artistic production over time.

 

Fragments of Epic Memory is curated by Julie Crooks, Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora.

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