ArtPost21 Podcast Episode 3: Jai Chuhan

  • 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!!