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Jasleen Kaur, Be Like Teflon, co-published by Glasgow Women's Library and Dent–De –Leone, 2019
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Jasleen Kaur, Ethnoresidue, 2020, HD Film, 19’32’’ (still) Commissioned by Tramway
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Jasleen Kaur, Ethnoresidue, 2020, HD Film, 19’32’’ (still) Commissioned by Tramway
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Jasleen Kaur, Oil Drum Stools, 2010 - ongoing Upholstered 15 litre oil drum cans with wipe clean tops.
Exhibition
Jasleen Kaur: Be Like Teflon
4 Jun 2021 – 17 Jul 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 6 Copperfield Street
- London
- SE1 0EP
- United Kingdom
Copperfield, London is pleased to present Jasleen Kaur’s first solo show in London. The exhibition will offer an intimate reading and viewing space that will focus around two main works: the book Be Like Teflon, that gives title to the exhibition, and the film Ethnoresidue.
About
Copperfield, London is pleased to present Jasleen Kaur’s first solo show in London. The exhibition will offer an intimate reading and viewing space that will focus around two main works: the book Be Like Teflon, that gives title to the exhibition, and the film Ethnoresidue.Be Like Teflon uncovers the untold, hidden herstories of Indian women living in Britain commissioned by Panel and Glasgow Women’s Library.
Kaur's research focused upon the Library’s collection and the voices she found to be missing. She found a need for a new book — part transcript, part cookbook, part collection of essays — that foregrounds lost or underrepresented experience, and where the daily act of communal cooking could serve as an intimate space to debunk myths of a voiceless, compliant South Asian woman misrepresented through a colonial gaze. Speaking about the inspiration behind the book Jasleen said: "It is both an inherited and personal trauma that drives this book. An acknowledgment of the silences, what is not said and not heard, the silencing of women in my life and, as I learn, in my cultural history too. A whole heritage of mistreatment, voicelessness and disempowerment, repeated again and again by a patriarchal force that keeps us quiet”.
One of the conversations that forms part of the book is with the artist’s maternal grandmother, which inspired the film Ethnoresidue. Rooting the work in Pollokshields, Glasgow, the site of her family home and the focus of South Asian communities, Kaur expands on the complexities and intimacies of identity, belonging, reckoning with histories and their entanglement in persistent colonial structures.
Exhibition open from Friday 4 June 2021 11am.
Opening event on Saturday 5 June 10am - 8pm and the gallery will be open on Sunday 6 June 11 - 5pm as part of London Gallery Weekend.
