Permindar Kaur: Strange Bedfellows
Permindar Kaur is a significant figure in contemporary British art, known for her whimsical and thought-provoking sculptural installations staged in major solo, group, and touring exhibitions across the UK and internationally.
Kaur鈥檚 work has gained both critical and popular acclaim for its playful yet sincere approach to art, using childlike objects to explore themes and narratives linked to the concepts of memory and home. For people around the world, home can represent safety, be transient, or even feel dangerous. The artist also delves into the intersectionalities at play in our lives, examining how various aspects of identity - such as race, gender, class, disability, and sexuality - interact and overlap to shape individual experiences. This perspective highlights how some individuals encounter multiple forms of discrimination at the same time.
Everyday items like beds, chairs, and toys, drawn from familiar domestic settings, inspire the creation of dreamlike spaces brimming with storytelling potential. These objects, resembling misplaced household belongings, are altered to evoke a strange sense of the uncanny. Though they may first appear to reflect innocence, childhood, and play, they quietly reveal darker, more unsettling undertones.
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Permindar Kaur is a significant figure in contemporary British art, known for her whimsical and thought-provoking sculptural installations staged in major solo, group, and touring exhibitions across the UK and internationally.
Kaur鈥檚 work has gained both critical and popular acclaim for its playful yet sincere approach to art, using childlike objects to explore themes and narratives linked to the concepts of memory and home. For people around the world, home can represent safety, be transient, or even feel dangerous. The artist also delves into the intersectionalities at play in our lives, examining how various aspects of identity - such as race, gender, class, disability, and sexuality - interact and overlap to shape individual experiences. This perspective highlights how some individuals encounter multiple forms of discrimination at the same time.
Everyday items like beds, chairs, and toys, drawn from familiar domestic settings, inspire the creation of dreamlike spaces brimming with storytelling potential. These objects, resembling misplaced household belongings, are altered to evoke a strange sense of the uncanny. Though they may first appear to reflect innocence, childhood, and play, they quietly reveal darker, more unsettling undertones.
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