Four South Asian American Artists Collaborate on Interactive Installation Debuting at the LACMA Art Parade in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA — May 26, 2026 — Los Angeles-based artists Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed and Ragni Agarwal have created an interactive art installation, The Auntie Multiverse: An Altar From the Future, in collaboration with actors and artists D’Lo and Sundeep Morrison. The project marks the first artistic collaboration between the four South Asian American artists and will debut at the LACMA Art Parade on June 20, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Art Parade is a large-scale public procession along Museum Row celebrating the opening of the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), presented in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch. Artists, musicians, performers, art students, and members of Los Angeles’ expansive creative community were invited to create mobile, processional works for the event.
The Auntie Multiverse: An Altar From the Future centers a mobile Auntie Altar that connects participants to the aunties who came before us and the aunties still to come. At the heart of the installation is an antique clothing trunk overflowing with cascading saris in vibrant colors, evoking ancestral memory, migration, and inherited care. The altar will be surrounded by South Asian Aunties dressed in ornate saris and wearing expressive papier-mâché masks created by Ragni Agarwal and Tanzila Ahmed in their signature visual styles. Throughout the parade, the Aunties will distribute ancestral affirmations and blessings to passersby.
The piece is an homage to the vibrancy, humor, wisdom, and power of South Asian aunties. Within South Asian American communities, aunties often serve as translators of culture, bridges between homelands and new beginnings, and architects of communal care. The installation imagines aunties across time: past, present, and future.
D’Lo and Sundeep Morrison, whose queer and trans identities shape their performance practices, will transform into Auntie Chandra and Auntie Gulabo, offering affirmations as radiant as their suits and saris. Additional community aunties will join the procession, inviting audiences into a world that is playful, ancestral, theatrical, and deeply rooted in collective joy.
The Auntie Multiverse: An Altar From the Future will debut at the LACMA Art Parade on June 20, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“The Auntie Altar is deeply connected to the Kitty Party project because both are rooted in the radical power of gathering,” says artist Ragni Agarwal. “They celebrate South Asian women not just as caretakers, but as creators of beauty, memory, humor, and future worlds.”
“As a born-and-raised Angeleno artist, participating in the LACMA Art Parade feels deeply personal,” says artist and political activist Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed. “To bring South Asian aesthetics, storytelling, and auntie energy into this iconic Los Angeles tradition feels like honoring the city for what it truly is: layered, vibrant, and shaped by all of us.”
“We as artists will become ancestors someday, and this is our way of honoring the aunties who came before us while dreaming radical, extra-flavorful futures for ourselves and the generations ahead,” says performance artist Sundeep Morrison.