Textiles as Monument

Fowler Museum at UCLA Textiles as Monument Opens August 9, 2026 Los Angeles, California What constitutes a monument and who gets memorialized? Three contemporary artists of South Asian descent—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—transform textiles of their cultural heritage into celebrations of those who have been unrecognized in public displays of historical memory. The project centers on new commissions by the featured artists made in collaboration with, for, and about the communities that have been rendered invisible by the biases of history-making.