Language, hospitality and discomfort in the work of Mithu Sen

mOTHERTONGUE is a dense, mid-career survey of Bengal-born artist Mithu Sen that escapes simple definitions.
Mithu Sen at ACCA

Bengal-born, New Delhi-based artist Mithu Sen’s latest solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is a dense, multilayered mind map that draws from her past two decades of practice.

Another is Aphasia (2016), a performance lecture at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York for Asia Contemporary Art Week. This takes the form of a tongue in cheek experiment to encapsulate her practice within the constraints of a nine-minute presentation, imposed by event organisers.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_