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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 40x30in
About this artwork
ramed in symmetry, this diptych (Sitting Proper) is a reference to the marriage portraits commissioned during the Renaissance. By taking on the role of both male and female, husband and wife; the artist complicates gender norms, marriage, and portrayal of man and woman through gaze and body language.
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.