FUGAZI. Jasleen Kaur and Andrew Lacon

6 Apr-29 Apr 2017

Overview

‘Cairns 2016.’ a series of three sculptures influenced by the actions of her father, who for 30 days ritualistically prepared a joth (ghee candle) and placed it on a derelict plot of land by their house within a shelter of bricks and tiles. Jasleen’s family were advised by a Sikh saint to light the joth at sundown for thirty days to ward off negative energies. This project is explicitly personal to Kaur, and explores the disparity between Indian and Western rationale through an object that expresses a confluence between two cultural ideas, values and aesthetics. Andrew Lacon’s work also addresses materiality drawing on its historical and socio- political uses. Lacon, by reclaiming and readdressing objects in relation to their display, asks us to consider how historical importance and social class has shaped our experience. Lacon will be exhibiting a series of new works influenced by a residency undertaken in Mexico, supported by the British Council and Grand Union in Birmingham.