Amita Suman Partners With Sotheby’s to Showcase Her Endless Love for Art
The ‘Shadow and Bone’ actress has curated a selection of artworks for the institution’s “Contemporary Curated” auction.
Nepalese-born actress Amita Suman has conquered our screens by formerly starring in Dr. Who and currently having a lead character in the number one most-watched Netflix series Shadow and Bone. Outside her passion for performance, Suman devotes her time to humanitarian causes as a Unicef ambassador, bringing awareness and providing opportunities for young children and women living in undeveloped villages in Nepal.
Now, in partnership with Sotheby’s, Suman has delved into her love for arts, which originated as a young girl through admiration for hand-painted murals and sculptures of Hindu Gods. The actress has collaborated on the auction house’s upcoming “Contemporary Curated” auction by selecting a handful of artworks she felt a special connection with.
Suman shared in a press statement: “I would not consider myself an art expert. I just see myself as someone who loves art and appreciates it in all its different forms. In my craft, I create through my body, my mind and my soul to tell a story for an audience. I suppose art is very similar but, to me, it feels more personal and the narrative is more free. An artist may have intended to portray one thing, but the viewer might interpret it in a completely different way – and that’s the beauty of it. You’re always free to draw your own conclusions.”
The exclusive selection of artworks spans contemporary, Impressionism, mixed-media and South East Asian movements and includes artists Andy Warhol, Flora Yukhnovich, Danica Lundy, Banksy, Secundino Hernández, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Alÿs, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin and Cindy Sherman.
Take a look at Suman’s curation in the gallery above. Her selected artworks will be on display at Sotheby’s London until April 18.
Elsewhere, Nan Goldin recounts beauty, pain and addiction with a new exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery.
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