Suchitra Mattai Guyana, b. 1973
A Time Machine for Renewed Love, 2021
Acrylic, spray paint, gouache, oil, vintage brooches, embroidery floss, faux peacock feathers, and appliqués on canvas
60 x 72 x 2 in
152.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm
152.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm
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Suchitra Mattai’s painting A Time Machine for Renewed Love references a mythic, dreamlike, feminine past, caught between space and time. Amid elements such as found broaches, peacock feathers, and floating,...
Suchitra Mattai’s painting A Time Machine for Renewed Love references a mythic, dreamlike, feminine past, caught between space and time. Amid elements such as found broaches, peacock feathers, and floating, bodiless forms, a captured, reflective moment is playing out in an ambiguous, ethereal landscape.
“I wanted to communicate something about that disorienting experience of living through multiple cultures,” says Mattai. “To me, this work enters that mythical space less through narrative, and more through a psychological discussion.”
“I wanted to communicate something about that disorienting experience of living through multiple cultures,” says Mattai. “To me, this work enters that mythical space less through narrative, and more through a psychological discussion.”