Gurmit Kaur
Email:
gurmit@gurmit.com
Website:
http://www.gurmit.com
Gurmit works in different mediums like painting, sculpting, jewellery, performance, film and installations. Over the last few years she has worked in different scale and mediums, but has always remained uniquely engaging in both modern and traditional techniques. She has explored her themes in a great variety of styles from abstraction to the realism.
Raised as a child in a stricken environment with child epilepsy in a tight patriarchal, dogmatic, religious Sikh upbringing, she then eloped and escaped a match made marriage at the age of 19. Gurmit has been thrown into by cultural and historical circumstances to look at this power shift amongst the genders and the society in the spaces that she occupy. Through it to understand what is it to perceive herself in the negotiation with her surroundings and what her identity means in the presence of others in their spaces.
Her work resides in the methodology of the body and mind perception through the gaze of the human body dealing with the psychological and the social concerns around the power of “The Looking Culture”. A culture that involves learning to interpret and through which identity becomes encoded in everyday objects.
Like other practices of interpretation, looking involves relationships of power.
And in this object/subject relationship of power, the most important experience of being is being seen by the other.
