Expanding Perspectives: Interview With Sheela Gowda
By Julee WJ Chung
Portrait of SHEELA GOWDA. Courtesy West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong.
Two and a half years after presenting her first solo exhibition in East Asia at independent art space Para Site in Hong Kong, Indian artist Sheela Gowda revisited the port city to speak at the M+ Matters symposium titled “Reorient: Conversations on South and Southeast Asia.” The conference honed in on what is now an increasingly apparent gap in art history, and what has become an urgent matter for not only the Asian art scene, but for the global art community: to trace, construct and contribute to the canon of South and Southeast Asia’s transnational and cross-regional cultural narratives.
