Title: Not new, otherwise

Year: 2023

Media: C-Type Print

Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

About the work: Jasleen Kaur sources images to ask how the mass produced or abandoned image has shaped the histories she inherited. In this altered image of land restitution between the Muslim and Sikh communities of Moga, Panjab, 2021, foundations are being ceremonially laid for a mosque to be reconstructed — a counter image. The crop and conceal of these photographs is employed as a tactic to intervene with legibility and materialise a refusal.

Bio: Jasleen Kaur (b.1986 Pollokshields, Glasgow) lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include Alter Altar, Tramway, Glasgow (2023); Flesh ‘n’ Blood, Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2021); Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Touchstones Rochdale (2021) and Be Like Teflon, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019). Kaur was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award in 2021 and is nominated for the 2024 Turner Prize.