Meera Sethi: ritual intimacies

Guest curated by Noor Bhangu

This exhibition runs February 18 - April 26, 2023 at Dunlop Art Gallery (Sherwood Village Branch). Opening reception: Feb. 18, 12:00 pm.

The exhibition ritual intimacies signals a world of diasporic relations, threading together visual histories and decolonial desires. Through textile works, paintings, and printed matter, Toronto-based artist Meera Sethi brings to the Prairies visions of historical iconographies and future mutualities, moving through the present to produce radical possibilities.

Meera Sethi is a contemporary Canadian visual artist with an interdisciplinary, intuitive, and research-based practice that moves between painting, drawing, fibre, photography, illustration, performance, and social practice. Through her work, she delves deep into the ways we understand and appreciate cloth, clothing, and the worn body, including its histories, its resonances, and its possibilities. meerasethi.com

Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice is rooted in relational curatorial aesthetics and practices. Through curatorial intervention, she hopes to involve politics of history, memory and materiality to problematize dominant histories of representation. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg. In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University in Tkaronto, Toronto.

She is a co-curator for Window Winnipeg (CA), a 24-hour art space for site-responsive presentations of contemporary art, with Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Jennifer Smith. Her independent curatorial projects have shown in Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, and Norway.

Image Credit: Meera Sethi, Visit Again (Outerwhere series), mixed media on found coat, 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist.

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