Exhibition Walk-through: Textiles As Monuments

Explore Textiles as Monument with curator Syona Puliady in a walkthrough featuring works that reimagine textiles as “counter-monuments."
About this Event

Textiles as Monuments curator Syona Puliady will guide a walk-through of the show featuring the works of Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane. The exhibition suggests how textiles can function as “counter-monuments,” honoring communities, histories, and lived experiences often excluded from traditional forms of public memory. Through close looking and conversation, the program will offer insight into the artists’ creative practices and the ways fabric, labor, touch, and storytelling can reshape ideas of monumentality, remembrance, and historical narrative.
Syona Puliady is curator of textiles of the Eastern Hemisphere at the Fowler Museum. Her research focuses on histories and textiles of the Indian Ocean realm. Her work also takes her to the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where she collaborates with artists and garment laborers who weave their identities into the Tamil landscape of visual, sensory, and performing arts.
Photo by Angel Xotlanihua