$2,500.00

Her Language of Love – One panel sold (Lady Cutting Fruits)

Par Nair
Richmond Hill, Ontario

$2,500.00

Her Language of Love – One panel sold (Lady Cutting Fruits)

Par Nair
Richmond Hill, Ontario

Size

30" x 42"

Medium

Hand embroidery on mundu

Her Language of Love is a hand-embroidered diptych created on “mundu”, a textile from South India traditionally worn by men. By hand embroidering stories of mothers and daughters on this specific textile, the work imagines worlds where voices of Indian women never existed. It celebrates the labour of women in their homes and the significance of these deeply personal spaces that have historically been underappreciated. Embroidering by hand becomes a gesture of care, an act of continuity, and a way of collaborating with my ancestors to heal from colonial wounds and together, dream up futures that we never inherited.

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About the artist

Par Nair
Richmond Hill, Ontario

Par Nair is an Indian born artist and educator who lives and makes in the GTA (Ontario, Canada). Par’s art practice pays tribute to ancestral and cultural roots, while intimately and peculatively reimagining diasporic futures through oil paintings, hand embroidery, installation, and creative writing. Par has shown her works nationally and internationally. Notable showings include Art Museum at University of Toronto, Bradley Museum, Craft Ontario, The Textile Museum of Canada, Onsite Gallery, Rajiv Menon Contemporary (LA), Nuit Blanche ‘23 and Eastern Edge Gallery (NL). Par currently holds the position of sessional faculty at OCAD University, where she teaches painting and art theory.

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