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SHELTERED. Second World War: the Abruzzo people for the Indian soldiers

On the occasion of the XIX Contemporary Day, MAXXI L’Aquila hosts a meeting, conducted in a workshop format , with the artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew.
Focusing on his project The Unremembered: The Italian Campaign , the talk weaves together the stories of the descendants of the Abruzzo families who helped soldiers from the Indian subcontinent, enlisted in the British Army, survive during the final years of the conflict in prison camps in Abruzzo ( Avezzano). The sacrifice and tenacity of the Indian soldiers is an extraordinary story, largely forgotten and never told in history books.

With curator Maria Teresa Capacchione and local historian Alessio De Stefano  with descendants of some of the families who sheltered these Indians.

HIER BIN ICH! (HERE I AM!)

Kunsthalle Emden Museum. Emden, Germany

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The UNREMEMBERED: Indian soldiers of World War II

Guest speaker – Hidden Histories in Museums and Archives course – Holly Gaboriault
Rhode Island School of Design

Camera South Asia

Panelist – Unframed
Lehman Auditorium, Columbia University, New York, NY

The Answers Take Time

Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America – Guest Speaker at Practitioner Fellows Capstone Seminar

The UNREMEMBERED – Indian Soldiers of WWII

by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Link to the essay here

Mimicry and Misrecognition: Re-dressing the Colonial Relation in Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Photographic Transformations

By
Dr. Rebecca Brown, Johns Hopkins University
Link to the article here

Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge

Reframe Initiative

The Answers Take Time

Buy your copy today!
monograph published by minor matters books and sepiaEYE, nyc

ISBN: 978-1-7356423-5-2

With an artist interview by Tom Jones II, and an essay by Bakirathi Mani. In collaboration with sepiaEYE

Informed by her perspective as a global citizen who has been a resident of three continents, the book’s sequence is its own journey through geographies and time, influenced by the irrefutable narratives of population displacement, and the imperfection of memories. Her photo-based installation work is a blend of still and moving imagery, often drawing on archives of professional portraiture and of personal photographs to elucidate similarities beneath assumed surface differences.

Matthew investigates identities she exists within, and outside of, finding ways to inhabit others’ stories so that they are heard and seen. Probing the impact of America’s dual position as colony and colonizer, her work expands what is considered to be American history in the country she now calls home.

Art and Design from 1900 to Now

An Indian from India - Madonnas

Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of Daimler Art Collection

Works from the collection 1920-2021

Our anniversary exhibition is Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of the Daimler Art Collection‹ looks back on the development of an internationally renowned corporate collection. From over 3,000 artworks in the collection, founded in 1977, about 100 works by ca. 70 artists have been selected. In a broad sense, relating to contemporary phenomena in the context of friendship, nature, and culture, the artistic works from a period of 100 years form networks and explore the interplay between art and human coexistence.

 

Curator:

Renate Wiehager

Head of the Daimler Art Collection

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Digital Breath: Video and Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity

For this timely exhibition, guest curator and multimedia artist Brian C. O’Malley brings together the work of 7 artists with fresh and diverse perspectives exploring the theme of “breath” during the era of COVID with compelling video and sound art works.

#India #SouthAsia #Worldwar2 #WW2 #colonial #British #Britain #forgotten #history

Virtual Discussion @ the Smithsonian

Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 6 – 7 pm
Join the Curator:  A Conversation with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (virtual)

This fall, as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, artist and scholar Annu Palakunnathu Matthew sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of that conflict through her recent work based on archival photographs of Indian soldiers. Join the artist, along with curators Asma Naeem and Carol Huh, for a discussion on the incompleteness of our historical narratives and the political dimensions of historical forgetfulness. T
 
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is a multimedia artist, photographer, and professor of art at the University of Rhode Island. She has also served as director of the Center for the Humanities and as Silvia-Chandley Professor of Nonviolence and Peace Studies. She is represented by the gallery sepiaEYE in New York City.  
 
Asma Naeem is the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and is a specialist in American art and contemporary Islamic art. She was previously associate curator at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.  
 
Carol Huh is curator of contemporary art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Huh focuses on current artistic production related to Asia through exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs.

Images from top clockwise: Artist experimenting with crystals courtesy David H Wells. 
Lt E C Joshua and Flt Lt Arjan Jethanand Mirchandani. 

Collective Recollection

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Former Glory

The American flag is an icon of patriotism, imbued with authority and cultural significance. This exhibition of works created in a range of media considers the American flag in the context of our time. As a representation of national identity, the flag purportedly encompasses a diversity of people, but it has also been used to substantiate the idea of American exceptionalism. Spanning more than 150 years, Former Glory questions our emotional connections to the flag and explores its presence in domestic and international communities. Humorous, violent, critical, and sentimental, these varied works acknowledge and reflect on American nationalism and our complex histories.

MFA Boston Spotlight talk

Come hear me speak about my work in the exhibition (un)expected Families @ MFA Boston on April 21 at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.

A Photographic Journey of Parallel Histories

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will present her photo-based artwork, which is a striking blend of still and moving imagery. Her larger work draws on archival photographs as a source of inspiration to examine concepts of memory, cultural assumptions, and national identity. Some of her work explores the powerful appeal of family photographs and how they shape identity and memory. Matthew uses the medium of photography to challenge the distance between past and present and the separation between fact and fabricated history.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Zimmerli Museum of Art

Reclaimed Baggage @ Northern Illinois University Art Museum

Public Reception:  5-6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 29, NIU Art Museum

curated by Nr

curated by Nirmal Raja

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INDIA – Contemporary Photography & New Media Art @ Fotofest Biennial