Seema Mattu is a gender-expansive Valmiki artist, whose practice is framed as a theme park - known as SEEMAWORLD. Within SEEMAWORLD, vessels and portals are built and evolved - giving viewers access to the realms she constructs. Through the welding of 2D and 3D mixed-media, themes explored include: the system of caste, queer sorcery, fan labour and gender taxonomy.

Projects and exhibitions include: Eastside Projects, CCA Glasgow, Fotomuseum (Zürich, CH), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), LUX, Berwick Film and Media Festival, IKON gallery, New Art City and QUAD. She is currently participating in Film London’s FLAMIN Fellowship (2021-2022), is a recipient of New Midland Group’s Research and Development Bursary (2021-2022) and, as of December 2021, a QUAD International Digital Fellow (2021-2022).

우정 (2021)
This work looks mainly at themes of friendship and bonds, sparked by a recent VR experience which starts inside a magical ice rink of sorts:

Four friends visit a VR Bar and enter separate white pods led by technicians in white strapped outfits and hefty accessories. It feels like an episode of Black Mirror. There, each friend is alone in a darkened shell - though their voices can be heard through one another’s headsets, and this becomes the vehicle through which their bonds are maintained in the virtual space.

By depicting the delicacies of her most historical and cherished friendships, Seema explores the blossoming of new friendships - which have been made possible through a 2021 exchange programme with Soft Focus.