Galerie Steph, together with Nature Morte Gallery (New Delhi & Berlin), is pleased to present the first Singapore exhibition of award-winning Indian artist Mithu Sen. The solo exhibition "In House Adoption" opens January 10 and runs through February 25, 2012. The exhibition includes works on paper and collage.
Known for her erotic sculptures, photo collages and drawings, Sen's work is provocative. "Sexual overtones in my work provoke and trap people. To force them to see it I try to engage the viewer so that there's interaction and the art becomes a performance." In her works, Sen contrasts scale, subject and even genre to give life to her remarkable imagination. Indeed, Sen has overwhelmed and occasionally shocked audiences with the sexual overtones of her works, creating waves with her unconventional art in India and internationally.
Sen's work has been gaining in exposure among collectors both internationally and at home. Her first exhibition was in 2000, entitled "Can We Really Look Beyond The Map" and she most recently exhibited at Gallery Nature Morte, Berlin, with the show "Nothing Lost in Translation". In 2010 Sen won the Skoda Prize, the largest and most prestigious award in Indian visual arts. The Prize recognizes cutting-edge work demonstrating vision, innovation, and a mature understanding of material and form. Sen's works have been shown at major art fairs such as Art Basel and has won awards from UNESCO and the Charles Wallace India Trust.
Artstage - An impressively colorful series of 5 large paper scrolls, measuring 350 x 240 cm, the product of Sen's residency in Japan in 2008 is currently on view at Artstage (Booth C7-01).
Hung to suggest a travel route, this interactive series confronts us with visceral representations of bodies fused into hybrid creatures.
"During my residency in Japan, I was amazed by the strength of the exotic, erotic and neurotic sub-culture of manga (the adult comic books of Japan) and its effects on the homogeneous Japanese Society with its super-complex psychology." - Mithu Sen
About the Artist
Born in 1971 in West Bengal, Sen obtained her Bachelor's and Masters degrees in painting from kale Bhavan at Santiniketan and later completed a postgraduate program at Glasgow School of Art on the Charles Wallace India Trust Award for 2000-2001.
She has held solo exhibition of her works at Nature Morte, New Dehli; Chemould Gallery, Mumbai; Bose Pacia Gallery, New York; Albion Gallery, London; Suzie Q Projects, Zurich; Krinzinger Projekts, Vienna, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, the British Council, New Dehli; Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipei and Galleria Continua, Paris.
Her works have been included in group exhibitions in many international museums including IVAM, Valencia; Devi Art Foundation, New Dehli; Kunst Museum, Berne; Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT) Tokyo; SOMA Museum, Seoul.
