IN THE REALM OF LIGHTNING
August 7 to September 17, 2021 at Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
From the Patel Brown website:
Artists Rajni Perera (b. Dehiwela, Sri Lanka) and Nep Sidhu (b. Maidenhead, UK) present a collaborative multi-faceted body of work formed over an extended and connected trajectory of instinctual practice. The exhibition is a witnessing through a non-dual awareness from which both artists follow in tradition through their Buddhist and Sikh origins.Within the works there are guides and temporal stainings such as Sun Ra's Immeasurable Equations and Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s proximity to the formless, along with other movements that look to the cosmic body to encourage acts of memory and trance that are charged by boundless expression. Comprising of large-scale experimental marbled textile wall work, embroidered protection for ride-or-die spiritualists and kin, as well as varied object, the exhibition culminates two years of labor, life, and intention.
The artists would like to thank the Canada Arts Council, EM Dynamics, and K & K Recycling Services for their generous support. All images courtesy of Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto.
Install shot | In the Realm of Lightning | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
A Raag for RA | Sharpie on Butcher Paper, string, stone beads, marbled washi
Install shot | In The Realm of Lightning | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
Install shot | The Loneliest Artifact Tells The Longest Story & Wait for me / and / I'll wait for you | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
The Loneliest Artifact Tells The Longest Story | Hand marbled and dyed textile, acrylic gouache, stone and wooden beads, wood, stains | 107” x 107” each
Install shot | In-case the seed breaks/In case the seed is open & Wait for me / and / I'll wait for you | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
Curtain Call (1980) | Marbled, painted and beaded textile | 107” x 80½”
Install shot | Without location, without distinction, without form & I Speak Of Everything | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
Install shot | Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
Sketch, The Loneliest Artifact Tells The Longest Story | Various textiles, trims, thread, paint, pencil.