Aug. 5, 2022 — Press release from the Art Gallery of Burlington
The Art Gallery of Burlington presents two new exhibitions, Noni Kaur’s ਨਜਰ ਨਾ ਲੱਗੇ/ Nazar na lage / Knock on wood and Sami Tsang’s Know Your Place.
International and award-winning artist, Noni Kaur, will be presenting her rangoli art from August 16 to January 14, 2023 in ਨਜਰ ਨਾ ਲੱਗੇ/ Nazar na lage / Knock on wood.
Rangoli originates from India and is a cultural practice in which coloured powders are used to decorate floors and flat surfaces to celebrate auspicious occasions. Although rangoli is traditionally made from powder pigments, flowers, rice, or sand; Kaur undergoes a nearly year-long process to prepare her hand-dyed desiccated coconut. Her unique site-specific and multisensory installations bridge gaps between gender, culture, the body, and the non-human world.
Over the course of the exhibit the desiccated coconut slowly decays, and becomes a mirror for the cycle of life, death, and return to the earth.
Ceramic artist Sami Tsang will be presenting her clay works from August 27 to November 26 in her exhibit, Know Your Place.
Tsang’s pieces range in size, style and shape and are known for their unconventional design. Her creations have recently been in the spotlight as Tsang is currently the 2022 Harbourfront Centre Artist-in-Residence for ceramics and the recipient of the 2019 Gardiner Museum Prize. Her works unfurl narratives of personal trauma as well as her journey of reconciling Chinese and Western cultures. Tsang’s paintings and sculptural forms become conductors for conversation, processing, and reflections that destabilize the defined gender and birth order roles she was prescribed as a child.
Both photos courtesy of Sami Tsang.
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