Join featured artist Satpreet Kahlon and visiting scholar Kiran Saili for an hour-long discussion of the themes of South Asian diaspora central to the exhibition Satpreet Kahlon: the inscrutable shape of longing .

 

Kahlon and Saili will examine the gaps in memory and fidelity that result from diasporic life, and discuss the potential for artistic practice to serve as a response to the fractured conditions of these experiences. With attention to both feeling and form, Kahlon and Saili consider: what is the relationship between image, making, and “memory”?; what does it mean to “return” to sites of trauma across expanses of space and time; and how does the body and its desires at once frustrate and enliven the possibilities of such work?

 

Event is FREE, please register below.

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About Artist Satpreet Kahlon and Scholar Kiran Saili

Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, organizer, and educator based on Coast Salish territories. Kahlon earned her MFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Her practice has been supported by The Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Critical Minded, Vermont Studio Center, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the RISD Museum, 4Culture, Henry Art Gallery, the Magnum Foundation, Brown University, the Chihuly Museum, Wing Luke Museum, the Neddy Award, and others. She was awarded the Biennial Curatorial Excellence Award by the Bellevue Arts Museum in 2022.

 

Kiran Lam-Saili is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Brown University, where she is a 2023/2024 Graduate Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women. Her research focuses on contemporary North American-based feminist and queer of color expressive cultures, with attention to how they revise the radical Women of Color and Third World feminisms of the 1970s and 80s.