'The Centre is Nowhere': British Art and the Global

Imogen Hart and Dorothy Price, Art History, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2022)

“What does it mean in the current political and cultural climate to conjoin the terms ‘British art’ and ‘the global’? As conflicting frameworks for the discipline, their conjuncture bristles with the violence of entangled colonial pasts, insouciant white privilege, and a neo-liberal agenda bent on the erasure of difference in the name of capital. British Indian artist Sutapa Biswas’s compelling visual meditation, Lumen (2021), aesthetically articulates these violent entanglements of personal and colonial histories caught in the tension between the categories ‘British art’ and ‘the global’.”

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