11.04.2025
UnMyth Works and Worlds of Mithu Sen (artist's monograph) Ed. by Irina Aristarkhova with contributions by Nancy Adajania, Irina Aristarkhova, Sushmita Chatterjee, Max Delany, Mithu Sen, and Karin Zitzewitz. This artist monograph presents a first comprehensive study of the artwork of Mithu Sen, a major contemporary artist and poet based in New Delhi, India. Sen’s work spans over two decades of making and hundreds of exhibitions, projects, performances, and word art, unveiling an unparalleled history of experiments with materials and concepts. The book’s title ‘UNMYTH’ speaks to Sen’s impactful and impacting work in all its multiplicity and complexity. Sen’s art imagines new worlds for us, including to escape to and from. Some elements are familiar, others are alien. As with myths, they are lulling and disturbing at the same time. These worlds are built around the key concepts in Sen’s work: ‘mything’, ‘unmything’ and ‘postmything’; radical hospitality; ‘untaboo’ sexuality; lingual anarchy; critiquing institutions and countering capitalism; ‘unmonolith’ identity; byproducts and contract. These and other concepts are engaged with systematically in wide-ranging essays, written by eminent scholars, curators, and critics who have followed Sen’s work for many years. The artist herself contributes conceptual captions, dispersed citations, andthe experimental ‘Fictional Interview’.
29.12.23
The Top Ten Shows Around the World @Frieze Magazine
10.10.23
Kirloskar Visiting Scholar Mithu Sen Brings Lingual Anarchy to Rhode Island School of Design
Kirloskar Visiting Scholar @ RISD 2023
22.04.23
mOTHERTONGUE @ ACCA 2023
09.03.23
iWitness @March meeting, Sharjah Biennale 2023
07.02.23
I am from there, I am from here @Sharjah Biennial 15
14.06.22
Until you Unexist @ Art Basel 2022
11.05.22
