Curators' Talk: Mrinalini Mukherjee

Join The Hepworth Wakefield’s Artistic Director Laura Smith in conversation with exhibition Co-Curator Tarini Malik as they share their insight into of Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015), one of the most significant modernist sculptors of the 20th century.

The talk will explore themes and ideas connected to Mukherjee’s practice and the wider histories of modern South Asian art foregrounded throughout Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms – Women Sculptors of India and Bangladesh.

This major retrospective at The Hepworth Wakefield presents Mukherjee alongside pioneering women artists from the early generation of modern Indian and Bangladeshi sculpture – the artist’s mother, Leela Mukherjee (1916 – 2002), Meera Mukherjee (1923 – 1998), Novera Ahmed (1939 – 2015) and Pilloo Pochkhanawala (1923 – 1986).

Bringing these artists in dialogue for the first time in the UK, the exhibition will foreground an interwoven history of South Asian art that has long been underrepresented within Western accounts of global modernisms.