Simranpreet Anand and Conner Singh VanderBeek: ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ | sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror

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RACHEL TOPHAM PHOTOGRAPHY Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.

Simranpreet Anand, "Canopy," 2021

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ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ | sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror is a survey of recent works by Surrey-based artist Simranpreet Anand, including collaborative pieces with artist and scholar Conner Singh VanderBeek.

Anand’s practice, indebted to familial and cultural community, engages materials and concepts drawn from the histories of Punjab and its diasporas. The title of the exhibition, sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ, captures the fissures emerging from her ongoing encounters with matter and material culture in our globalized world. The show opens with ਬੰਦੇ  ਚਸਮ  ਦੀਦੰ  ਫਨਾਇ / bande chasm deedn fanaai (Ang 723), a body of works that takes the synthetic, plastic-laden material culture that surrounds contemporary Sikh institutions as its starting point. Parallel to this series are works that consider the fabric of everyday life, attending to its embodied histories and gendered contexts of labour.

The show is guest curated by Sajdeep Soomal. A virtual artist talk with the artists will be presented on March 29, also in collaboration with SOCA.