Sutapa Biswas @ Kettles Yard

The show Lumen demonstrates Sutapa Biswas’ vital contributions to the Black Arts Movement in Britain and to the shifting understanding of post-war British art. Biswas’ works visually disrupt, challenge and reimagine our present time: visual theorist Griselda Pollock said that it was Biswas who “forced us all to acknowledge the Eurocentric limits of the discourses within which we practise”.   The exhibition includes the seminal Housewives with Steak-Knives (1985) and Kali(1984), showing the richness, diversity and conceptual continuity of the artist’s extended practice through the display of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video.