The virtual interactive session ART | PRACTICE | RESEARCH is focused on the art and artist's journey around the world. This virtual session will be arranged once a month during the duration of ‘Brihatta Home Art Project 2020’. In Part- 6, our honorable guests, Artist Mithu Sen will partake in a discussion to describe her artistic journey, area of research, and ways of practice in previous decades, up until now. This session will be moderated by Artist Tayeba Begum Lipi.
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The virtual interactive session’s aim is to create a meaningful platform to build and maintain strong relationships between local & international artists, and art communities.
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ZOOM Link-
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88488287315
Meeting ID: 884 8828 7315
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Mithu Sen works in a variety of media to explore and subvert hierarchical codes and rules, with particular reference to sexuality, language, the value of art and objects, and experiences of marginalization. Through various devices and interventions, she challenges our standards of social exchange, undermining the codes we come to rely on and recalibrating types of interaction. Her practice incorporates drawing, poetry, social media, instructional exchanges and performance to demonstrate how language and social conventions can restrict our capacity of expression. Sen uproots how we display and value art by constructing interactive scenarios, objects for exchange, and propositions to ‘create and consume value’, reconceiving how art is shared and circulated.
She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Palais De Tokyo, Art Unlimited: Basel, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Meditations Biennale, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Dhaka Art Summit among others.
Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015 and most recently, Performance Artist of the Year by India Today in 2020. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India.
