Meet the Artists: Melanie Brewster and Noormah Jamal

Join us for a Meet the Artist program with exhibiting artists Melanie Brewster and Noormah Jamal. At 2PM, Brewster will be in conversation with Curator of Visual Arts, Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, to discuss her Sunroom project, A Metaphysical Quest for the Deepest Backbend. This exhibition constructs a metafictional world in which a woman’s yoga practice has become so extreme that she transforms into an ouroboros: a serpent consuming its own tail, a symbol of cyclical time and eternal return. The exhibition takes place in the aftermath of this transformation, and Brewster aims to reflect on extreme wellness practices, the limits of enlightenment, and questions of access within contemporary