Reevah Agarwaal’s Now I Braid My Own Hair is in its final week at boundary in Beverly. The exhibition runs through October 10, with an artist talk that Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Born and raised in New Delhi and now based in Chicago, Agarwaal works with quilts and collages made from childhood photographs, keepsakes and found or inherited textiles. The gallery describes a practice concerned with adolescence, matrilineal inheritance and the ways domestic life shapes womanhood and identity.
The pictured work, Will I be free? (2024), brings together repurposed cotton razai, saris and personal clothing with thread, yarn, wall decals, nail polish and hair baubles. In the reproduced image, a child’s figure sits within a pink textile field, with long braids extending below it. Those everyday materials make family history physically present in the work.
Agarwaal earned her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. The closing talk offers an opportunity to hear directly from the artist about this body of work.
boundary is at 2334 W. 111th Place. Visit the gallery’s current exhibition page for details.
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