Installation
a touching
This piece features a collaborative poem hand embroidered onto the artist's mother's saree. A floating embroidery technique in incorporated so that the piece may be viewed from both front and back. From the front, the letters appear full and from... More
Installation
amma & her touch
These works bring together contrasting ceremonial objects and practices to explore hybridity as a careful interweaving of two cultures.
Installation
feeling, feelings
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... More
Painting
oil paintings
This series of oil paintings reference the Hindu practice of applying turmeric paste to various parts of the body. The paintings tell stories about ritual, hair braiding, symmetry, pattern, and discipline. A technique of layering paints,... More
Mixed Media
pallu pattu
This series celebrates different cultural objects reaching toward each other to become and take space as a hybrid object which may speak to experiences of diaspora. Themes of duality, mirroring, repetition, and symmetry are explored.
Performance
performative films
This series of performative films seek out lost memories that reveal intimacy as well as estrangement. By performing with sounds, cherished objects and memories from her past, the artist investigates loss, longing and displaced melancholia. She... More
Creative Writing
poetry/short story book
A collection of poems, pictures and stories with handmade red book marks. The artists writing is in a style that is intentionally naive, romanticizing longing and envy and is in acceptance of trauma both diasporic and racial in nature.
Mixed Media
strictly braids
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... More
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]