Arts-Matter Presents a Conversation with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Angela Tiatia
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PHOTOGRAPHY Manolo Campion PUBLISHED Wed, 13 Jan 2021
Arts-Matter, the new Sydney-based cultural programming platform co-founded by Michelle Grey and Susan Armstrong, recently hosted a conversation with multi-disciplinary artists Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Angela Tiatia (both represented by Sullivan & Strumph) – currently on view at the Art Gallery of NSW until the end of Feb.
Tiatia’s work explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Also drawn to narratives that encompass similar socio-political themes, Nithiyendran creates rough-edged, vibrant, new-age sculptural idols. He experiments with form and scale in the context of figurative forms to explore politics of sex, the monument, gende