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Bibilography
06 April 2025 — Object-orientated storytelling.
(Kaur 2023) (Kaur 2023)
Jasleen Kaur’s sculptural installations weave together cultural memory, family heritage, and collective belonging through the use of reclaimed everyday objects. In Alter Altar, the entire exhibition set up reminds me of those objects at home that don’t quite fit, yet never leave. The car becomes a container of ancestral memory, wrapped in softness, ritual, and absurdity. That softness unsettles.What draws me to Kaur’s work is her attention to the domestic and the diasporic, not as separate threads but as entangled knots. Her Sikh-Scottish upbringing is reflected in her materials: Irn-Bru resin, salvaged objects, song, and everyday rituals. They don’t explain themselves. They sit with you like a relative at the dinner table, familiar but not always understood, and the artists asks simply acknolegement and acceptance in that.
Kaur’s ability to weave personal artefacts into cultural reflection reminded me that material memory does not require grand gestures. It only asks to be held, or sometimes, simply placed.
Her work pushes me to think about how to let the objects in my own work hold more of that tension: between the personal and the communal, between absurdity and devotion. Her process of collecting, remaking, and letting things sit together in contradiction is a method I like to return to and focus on.