Par Nair
feeling, feelings
Installation
2022
artificial braided black hair, turmeric from the motherland, painted frames, performative film projected on wall
This installation deconstructs the most crucial elements of the artist's practice while disrupting and decolonizing the rhetoric of white cube gallery. A sense of feeling full and empty is echoed in this installation and refers to double consciousness in diasporic journeys.
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]