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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Suchitra Mattai, Team Spirit, 2022

Suchitra Mattai Guyana, b. 1973

Team Spirit, 2022
Vintage saris and fabric
39 x 40 in
99.1 x 101.6 cm
8674
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Team Spirit is a wall hanging by Indo-Caribbean American artist Suchitra Mattai. The work is woven together from a mixture of vintage saris and found fabrics. Both the materials and...
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Team Spirit is a wall hanging by Indo-Caribbean American artist Suchitra Mattai. The work is woven together from a mixture of vintage saris and found fabrics. Both the materials and the imagery of this piece relate to Mattai’s intergenerational heritage as an Indo-Caribbean woman. Mattai often uses materials that possess embedded meanings. This creates a call and response between the materials and the other conceptual or aesthetic aspects of the work. In this work, we see three abstracted feminine, Black figures interconnected through space and time. The woven saris connect women of the South Asian diaspora over time, because they’re of different vintage. The methods Mattai uses to make these works address the hidden or erased history of female indentured servitude from South Asia that followed the end of colonial slavery. “I say I’m a storyteller,” says Mattai, “but the story does not only come from history. When you’re thinking about what constitutes memory, it’s part truth and it’s part myth. Being part of a diaspora community, you want to connect back to this past you no longer occupy, or have tangible evidence of.”
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