ArtworxTO Pop-Up HUB: Chashm-e-bulbul

Phulkari is the ornately embroidered textiles from pre-colonial Punjab. This exhibition will observe the cultural significance of phulkari, textiles, and its associated oral traditions to probe our grandmother’s missing narratives from predominantly male recorded historical texts. Chashm translates to eyes. Our ancestor’s archive truths that they see and enact as bulbuls, which translates to nightingales, to sing knowledge for future generations. This weaves the thread of the past and future together. The grounding themes of the exhibition include the legacy of erasure of Sikh female bodies of work, and their relationship with Sikh spirituality and the natural world.

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