Niru Ratnam

About the Gallery
Niru Ratnam opened in 2020.  The program builds on Ratnam's academic and writing interests from the late 1990s onwards.  The gallery represents ten artists with a mixture of established, mid-career and emerging artists whose work often interrogates the canon around ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.  They work across painting, film, installation, photography and sculpture.  

About the presentation
Niru Ratnam will feature the work of Kutluğ Ataman and Sutapa Biswas in a two-person show. Throughout their decades-long careers, both artists have traced personal narratives of cultural identity, memory, and belonging within larger historical trajectories of globalization from the 1990s onwards. With these issues now center stage in contemporary art practice, this presentation will open up the overlooked history of such thinking. An acclaimed Turkish video artist and feature filmmaker, Ataman only recently returned to exhibiting in gallery settings after a period of self-imposed exile. Biswas is a British Indian conceptual artist who came to prominence as part of the Black Arts movement in the UK in the 1980s. Her multimedia practice engages with the complexities of racial and gendered power relations born out of tangled colonial histories.