Event Dates
Time
2:00 pm
Simranpreet Anand, Softness in the Sikh Home, 2024, embroidered framed photographs, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Artist.
Photo: Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography, UM.
2:00 pm
ADMISSION
Free
Opening + reception to follow. RSVP here.
Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of ceremonial fabrics, lenticular prints, and embroidered photographs considers the notion of the “eternal” in terms of religious significance, as well as the synthetic nature of products manufactured to last forever. Collapsing commercial and domestic spaces, her exhibition at The Polygon Gallery will feature a living room — with custom wallpaper, a couch, and a television — beside the Gallery’s gift shop, probing multivalent ideas of worship, value, and sustainability in the 21st century.