Join Natalie King for a floor talk on Mithu Sen’s solo exhibition mOTHERTONGUE.
Natalie King OAM has known artist Mithu Sen since 2011 when she won the prestigious Skoda Prize at the Delhi Art Fair. King will reveal their personal connection through meetings at Sharjah Biennial 15, Asia Pacific Triennial 2018 and studio visits in New Delhi foregrounding a friendship and immense curiosity about her distinctive practice. King will also reflect on Sen’s material dexterity, feisty feminism, humour and tenderness, mothering and othering by asking questions that remain UNanswered.
Biography:
Natalie King OAM is an Australian curator, writer and senior researcher engaged with artists and institutions across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. She is the Curator of Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp, Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and Powerhouse Museum, 2023; Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese Contemporary Photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Series Editor of Mini Monographs with Thames & Hudson.
In 2017, King was Curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion, the 57th Venice Art Biennale and 2014 TarraWarra Biennial: Whisper in My Mask with Djon Mundine. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, amongst others.
King is an Enterprise Professor of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. In 2020, King was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for “service to the contemporary visual arts”. She is President of AICA-Australia (International Association of Art Critics, Paris) and a mentor for Mentor Walks. In 2021, she was awarded a University of Melbourne Excellence Award: The Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence.
