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Par Nair
Canada
Artist highlights
- Prizewinner
Discover the creation in interiors
Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 48x36in
About this artwork
The work is a play on expectations and translations of migrant bodies. It attempts to empower the figures through ritual. The pointillism inspired yellow brushstrokes are a reference to Hindu practices that revolve around applying turmeric paste to various parts of the body. It is a celebration of various symbols of beauty lost to Eurocentrism. It recognizes the effects of assimilation and loss of culture within an immigrant experience and centres…
the body as a fragmented and hybrid archive of dualities.
Par Nair
Canada
Credentials
- Prizewinner
« My braids tight with memory. My braids loosening with desire. My braids undone without an archive. »
Par Nair is an award-winning artist based in Canada whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. Through her striking compositions, she explores themes related to braiding, diasporic melancholy, archive, memory, healing, decolonization, matrilineal memory, hybridity, symmetry, pattern, discipline, ritual, migrant experience, diaspora, etc. Nair primarily creates with oils on canvas.
