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German-Finnish artist Matti Braun traces the intersection of research obscurities, exquisite materiality, and conceptual art to create richly beautiful paintings and objects that address understudied and unseen narratives of cross-cultural exchange and slippage. His inquiries have generated new understandings of catalytic 20th century figures including legendary Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray and Senegal’s first president Léopold Sédar Senghor, as well as of the history and transmission of batik, and cultural icons including E.T., among other global sci-fi tropes. For his latest exhibition La …