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ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ

sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror

November 22, 2025 April 12, 2026 Organized and circulated by the Reach Gallery Museum; guest curated by Sajdeep Soomal.

A survey of recent works by artist Simranpreet Anand, including collaborative pieces with artist and ethnomusicologist Conner Singh VanderBeek. Anand’s practice, indebted to familial and cultural community, engages materials and concepts drawn from the histories of Punjab and its diasporas. The title of the exhibition, sheesh ‘ch thareṛ, captures the fissures emerging from her ongoing encounters with matter and material culture in our globalized world. The show centres around ਬੰਦੇ ਚਸਮ ਦੀਦੰ ਫਨਾਇ / bande chasm deedn fanaai (Ang 723), a body of works that takes the synthetic, plastic-laden material culture that surrounds contemporary Sikh institutions as its starting point. Parallel to this series are works that consider the fabric of everyday life, attending to its embodied histories and gendered contexts of labour.

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Image Credits: (L-R) Simranpreet Anand, हमारे स्वाद की असलियत, insatiable desires of a bourgeoisie, 2021, natural dyes and colon, 78 x 48” each. | Simranpreet Anand, ਊਚ ਨੀਚ ਬਿਕਾਰ ਸੁਕ੍ਰਿਤ ਸੰਲਗਨ ਸਭ ਸੁਖ ਛਤ੍ਰ ॥ ਮਿਤ੍ਰ ਸਤ੍ਰੁ ਨ ਕਛੂ ਜਾਨੈ ਸਰਬ ਜੀਅ ਸਮਤ ॥ uooch neech bikaar sukirat sa(n)lagan sabh sukh chhatr || mitr satr na kachhoo jaanai sarab jeea samat || (detail), 2021, chandoa sahib, rihal, chaur sahib, plastic marigolds, plastic rose petals, white sheet, 9’ diameter x 10’ height. | Simranpreet Anand, ਮਾਲ ਕੈ ਮਾਣੈ ਰੂਪ ਕੀ ਸੋਭਾ ਇਤੁ ਬਿਧੀ ਜਨਮੁ ਗਵਾਇਆ ॥ maal kai maanai roop kee sobhaa it bidhee janam gavaiaa || (detail), 2021, cardboard tubes, various synthetic fabrics, ashes, soot, charred and melted plastic, installation dimensions variable. | All photographs by Rachel Topham Photography, courtesy of the Reach Gallery Museum.
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