Kala Pani
Angela Aujla
Description
Building on family and community exchanges, memory, and historical archives, Kala Pani (black water) pieces together a narrative of early Sikh immigrants that has been relegated to the margins of history. This work thinks of the ways that these women practiced and maintained culture in the face of patriarchal traditions and racist hostility, alongside the difficulties of being displaced, torn from family and community networks. Angela’s narrative artwork is informed by her academic practice in feminist postcolonial theory and explores the complexities of history, memory, culture, and identity. She seeks to reanimate subjects relegated to the margins of Eurocentric history, with a focus on diasporic South Asian stories.
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Artist, 2021.
Additional Information
- Medium: Multidisciplinary
- Year Created: 2021
- Artwork Type: Multidisciplinary
- Program Name: ArtworxTO Project (New in 2021)
- Artist Website: https://www.instagram.com/angela_aujla_art/
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ArtworxTO Pop Up Hub | Bayview Village - PAST EXHIBITION
This exhibition was located at 2901 Bayview Ave, North York, ON M2K 1E6
Curator: Raji Kaur Aujla
chashm-e-bulbul is an exhibition that probes the erasure of Sikh grandmothers’ visibility from historical records and explores methodologies to tell their stories through oral traditions, Punjabi textile, folk embroidery, Phulkari over the passage of time. Image Credit: Rachel Topham.