News from one of our members:
Sarindar Dhaliwal: Narratives from the Beyond
Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia
September 21 – December 15
The
experience of migration affects not only how we remember our culture, but also
how we recreate it in our new country. The process of relocating to a new
homeland can influence our interpretation of symbols, and have a powerful
impact on how we form and adapt our identities.
The Surrey Art Gallery
exhibition Sarindar Dhaliwal: Narratives from Beyond explores questions about
culture and memory in both personal and provocative ways. Featuring selections
from ten years of photography, sculpture, textile, and video, this survey
showcases one of Canada's most accomplished South Asian artists.
Drawing from
childhood memory, global history, and the real and imagined, the world revealed
in Sarindar Dhaliwal's mixed-media art presents riveting meditations on beauty,
identity, exile, and home. This exhibition traces the artist's experiences in
India (where she was born), Britain (where she was raised and educated), and
Canada (where she has lived and worked for close to three decades).
The complex and often
hidden traumas of the partition between India and Pakistan is symbolized in
Dhaliwal's map of these two countries formed from marigold flowers that appear
as though on fire. The joys and traumas of childhood are infused in the
artist's giant handmade fairy tale books and large-scale, meticulously arranged
coloured pencil collections. The world of sport returns again and again, as in
the delicately embroidered cricket leg pad framed within an ornate marble
window.
Together, these artworks and others by this Toronto-based artist
present a sumptuous cartography of place and experience that spans the globe
while uniting the personal with the universal.
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