In Episode 3: Professor Omar Kholeif aka Doctor O's Birthday Special, Studio Visit co-creator travels solo to South-West London to visit artist Jai Chuhan in her home studio. The penetrating smell of oil paint summons them in, through, and across orbitals of feeling. In this textured world, they traverse worlds of lustrous color, elongated bodies constituting womanist worlds, via speculative cartographies pulled from Chuhan's unbounded imagination. Kholeif could have not have dreamt of a more thrilling encounter. They leave wishing that they had spent the decades sitting, looking, working, and dreaming with Jai Chuhan. Chuhan's art invites the spectator to navigate the psychological tension in her paintings, often exploring the possibilities of the female gaze. Jai Chuhan, Kholeif believes, and argues, is arguably one of Great Britain's most significant painters working today, worthy of being lauded with medals, museum solo exhibitions, and so much more!!
Jai Chuhan was born in Punjab, India and now lives and works in London. She moved to the UK as a child and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL between 1973-1977. Her work has been exhibited widely at museums and public galleries such as, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Tate Liverpool; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Tramway, Glasgow and has featured in the Liverpool Biennial and the Asia Triennial, Manchester. Her work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection of England and Tate, UK.
Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production in association with TABARI.
With thanks to Donald Ryan Gallery, New York.
Additional thanks to Levin Haegele for letting me fly solo, accidentally, that is/was.
Theme tune: Steller’s Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax.
With thanks to Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
Additional music provided by Jai Chuhan Studio.
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