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Representation and Diversity at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
An overview of the contemporary female ‘Islamic’ artists presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery in 2022
Located in New York, London and Singapore, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that opened in 2000 with the mission to challenge the notion that Western men were making more collectable art. Championing female artists and those from historically underrepresented cultures, the gallery highlights global interconnectedness and is a torchbearer for East-West exchange. Last year (2022) was no exception, with the gallery featuring the work of artists Golnaz Fathi, Anila Quayyum Agha and Lalla Essaydi.
The year began with the group show A Room of Her Own, held at the Singapore location, which presented the works of eight pioneering women whose works reimagined spaces both real and symbolic through a variety of mediums. Amongst the eight women were Pakistani-American Anila Quayyum Agha and Moroccan-born Lalla Essaydi, whose work both reflect on the segregation of spaces within traditional Muslim societies. Whilst Agha presents large-scale elaborate light installations that allude to the ornamented public spaces she was excluded from growing up as a female in Lahore, Essaydi explores how her upbringing in a…
