Par Nair
strictly braids
Mixed Media
2022
digital collage
In this series, the artist juxtaposes projections of colonial imagery and white gaze from renaissance paintings with objects and memories of loss and longing. The artist investigates how the black braid which often represents her embodied inventory and archive, re-orients and repositions itself with regard to overwhelming whiteness.
Work by
Par Nair
installation, oil painting, performative film, digital collage, embroidery
“I investigate and explore melancholia in diaspora using decolonial methods and a return to ancestral knowledge and practices. Through objects and memories that are both intimate and estranged, I wish...” [More]