Celebrate the summer opening of Textiles as Monument, an exhibition featuring three contemporary artists—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—who activate textiles as a powerful medium for memory, storytelling, and historical reimagining. Through their new commissions and recent works, the show explores how fabric can function as a “counter-monument,” challenging traditional forms of commemoration while centering people who have been excluded or rendered invisible by dominant narratives. Drawing on materials rooted in everyday and intimate contexts, the artists reframe monumentality through softness, care, and embodied memory.

The evening marking the launch of the exhibition will include its preview as well as food, music, and a lively conversation between the artists and the curator of textiles Syona Puliady. Together, they will discuss fabrics as sensuous and tactile vessels of storytelling shaped by touch, labor, and lived experience. The evening will offer an opportunity to experience the works first-hand, connect with the artists and curators, and enjoy a festive atmosphere in community with other art lovers.