Catalogue accompanying the exhibition Kindred Tracings, featuring artists Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Minahil Bukhari, Russna Kaur, and Michelle Sound, each of whom apply strategies of abstraction and the elements of scripts (the curves, gestures and marks) in a variety of mediums to give shape, colour and substance to experiences of language and its failures as they follow the lineages of family stories and worldviews that tend to evade written records, to finally make them resonant and specific.
KINDRED TRACINGS
Burnaby Art Gallery
Essay by Emily Dundas Oke, poem by Russna Kaur
2024, Saddle Sewn with loose end threads (4 different thread colours – 75 books x each colour), Vellum dust jacket sewn into book, Hand collated paper text and vellum text (Paper text, 80 pages; Vellum text, 12 pages), 7.75″ x 9.5″, Typefaces: Magnat, Avenir Next