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SCAD Museum of Art: "Sujay Shah: 'THE SLANT OF THIRSTING MOUTHS'"


  • SCAD Museum of Art 601 Turner Boulevard Savannah, GA, 31401 United States (map)

For his first solo museum exhibition, artist Sujay Shah (SCAD B.F.A., painting, 2013) presents bold, colorful paintings that depict wild animals in lush domestic interiors. In Shah’s works, fauna native to his homeland — lions, zebras, gazelles, leopards, and wildebeest — express their feral nature in spaces adorned with big-game taxidermy hunting trophies and Victorian-style furnishings commonly found in luxury tourist safari lodges in Africa. By juxtaposing scenes of animal barbarity with symbols of Western colonial sophistication, Shah upends preconceived notions of what it means to be civilized.