ARTISTS
Angela Aujla: My Grandmother鈥檚 Dress
Through engagement with archival ephemera, material culture, and family photographs, My Grandmother鈥檚 Dress tells a story of early diasporic Punjabi women making and remaking culture in Canada. Against a backdrop of patriarchal traditions, racist hostility, and experiences of dislocation from homelands, the artist explores those lived experiences to create a visual discourse that disrupts colonial narratives and reanimates the lives of those excluded from dominant histories. Part autobiographical, part historical and part fictive, her exhibition uses a series of tactile installation and mixed media pieces to consider the concept of the palimpsest and the idea that ineradicable traces of the past endure through generations.
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Through engagement with archival ephemera, material culture, and family photographs, My Grandmother鈥檚 Dress tells a story of early diasporic Punjabi women making and remaking culture in Canada. Against a backdrop of patriarchal traditions, racist hostility, and experiences of dislocation from homelands, the artist explores those lived experiences to create a visual discourse that disrupts colonial narratives and reanimates the lives of those excluded from dominant histories. Part autobiographical, part historical and part fictive, her exhibition uses a series of tactile installation and mixed media pieces to consider the concept of the palimpsest and the idea that ineradicable traces of the past endure through generations.
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