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A Conversation with Artist Satpreet Kahlon and visiting scholar Kiran Saili

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  • Saturday, Nov 18, 2023  3pm - 4pm

Location

Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE

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Join featured artist Satpreet Kahlon and visiting scholar Kiran Saili for an hour-long discussion of the themes of South Asian diaspora central to the exhibition Satpreet Kahlon: The Inscrutable Shape of Longing.

Kahlon and Saili will examine the gaps in memory and fidelity that result from diasporic life, and discuss the potential for artistic practice to serve as a response to the fractured conditions of these experiences. With attention to both feeling and form, Kahlon and Saili consider: what is the relationship between image, making, and “memory”?; what does it mean to “return” to sites of trauma across expanses of space and time; and how does the body and its desires at once frustrate and enliven the possibilities of such work?