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The Vivid Thread of Memories by the Yard

28 December 2024 at 00:00
Suchitra Mattai uses vintage saris and vivid found materials to weave exquisite tapestries that challenge fixed histories about art and migration.

© Lawren Simmons for The New York Times

Woven from vintage saris, Suchitra Mattai’s abstracted landscape “Through the Forest, Across the Sea, and Back Home Again” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., illustrates the journeys of people in diasporic communities, leaving their home countries. Red, pink, orange and brown represent both India, where the artist’s ancestors originated, and the Caribbean, where they arrived.
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