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Ace Hotel (@acehoteltoronto) commissioned me to create five new original artworks for five different rooms in their new location in Toronto. Rooms 302, 305, 510, 912, 1101 each have a hand-drawn work featuring original typography of the word “home” in different South Asian scripts and languages: Kannada, Tamil, Sindhi, Punjabi, and Bangla. I couldn’t be more thrilled for this collaboartion.
Photo credit: @william.jess.laird
Please join me on Saturday, April 23, 2022, online for my closing artist talk as part of the Centre for South Asian Civilizations University of Toronto Mississuaga artist in residence award:
THE CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS PRESENTS
UNSKILLED: AN EXPLORATION OF SOUTH ASIAN TEXTILE from seed to closet
APRIL 23, 2022, online
11AM - 1PM Toronto Time
9:30PM - 11:30PM India Time
5PM - 7PM Central European Time
Fall 2021 saw the exhibitions Fashion Forward and ¡Adelante Siempre! curated by Hitoko Okada on view at WAHC (Workers Arts and Heritage Centre) in Hamilton, Canada. I had work on display in both shows and participated in two events during the exhibition run: “Fashion Forward a Conversation on re-fashioning sustainability as a relational ecosystem”, a conversation between Sage Paul, Hitoko Okada, and me co-hosted with X University’s Fashion Program at the Creative School; and a “Wash ‘n Care Workshop” where I led participants through the Wash ‘n Care project.
WAHC has produced a beautiful eight minute video tour of both exhibitions narrated by Hitoko Okada that outlines key themes in both exhibitions.
Profiles on Practice is a new podcast series hosted by curator Nadia Kurd exploring the work of women artists of colour in Canada. The podcast is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through the Digital Originals initiative and is housed on the website of Femme Art Review, a publication providing space for women and LGBTQ2+ voices that aims to reflect on art and culture in a dynamic, engaging way.
In this episode, I have been interviewed by Nadia about the trajectory of my work and it’s relationship to fashion and capitalism. Have a listen.
I was honoured to be a invited to be a part of Critical Aunty Studies, an online “Asynchronous Symposium” created by drag artist and Mellon Bridge assistant professor at Tufts University, Kareem Khubchandani.
In this video performance, I take you through the initial ideas that led to the development of my painting series “Upping the Aunty”. I share interesting anecdotes and useful critique of the fashion and style blogs as they relate to aunties. (duration 8:55)
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