https://sirikaur.com sirikaur.com Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:45:44 +0000 https://sirikaur.com en https://sirikaur.com/Selected-Works Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:24:32 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Selected-Works Selected Works SHE TELLS ALL Crow's Field This Kind of Face This Kind of Face Videos Half of the Whole Know Me for the First Time Cruiserweight Female Photographer Seeks Portrait Subjects https://sirikaur.com/Crow-s-Field Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:56:34 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Crow-s-Field Crow's Field&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff26f0fdb859eb30b51f1cda80c0bc4b1c32b7c11dde2a9e456f0d9bc7fafb76/Sunflower.jpg" data-mid="53520707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff26f0fdb859eb30b51f1cda80c0bc4b1c32b7c11dde2a9e456f0d9bc7fafb76/Sunflower.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1451" width_o="1920" height_o="1451" 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width_o="800" height_o="608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eafc3e55d3ad51a0be59ac0ca28d295bdd6717fb7c47681b34bf37719bb49de2/Kaur_Sister_30x40_Pigmentprint_2017.jpg" data-mid="53520064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/eafc3e55d3ad51a0be59ac0ca28d295bdd6717fb7c47681b34bf37719bb49de2/Kaur_Sister_30x40_Pigmentprint_2017.jpg" /><img width="800" height="681" width_o="800" height_o="681" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cf2e0473fa237939156e27f3b107eb39d4c201296554335a2581b9d6c0e21ae/Kaur_SatelliteHouse_20x23_pigmentprint_2017.jpg" data-mid="53520062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/6cf2e0473fa237939156e27f3b107eb39d4c201296554335a2581b9d6c0e21ae/Kaur_SatelliteHouse_20x23_pigmentprint_2017.jpg" /><img width="1513" height="2000" width_o="1513" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd90ec9ba22a1020f5f7c0e67a2b0e16732d7cfcfe861c023ee1fb0ba2ef5fe2/Kaur_SnowTrees2_30x22_pigmentprint_2017.jpg" data-mid="53520066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd90ec9ba22a1020f5f7c0e67a2b0e16732d7cfcfe861c023ee1fb0ba2ef5fe2/Kaur_SnowTrees2_30x22_pigmentprint_2017.jpg" /> ︎ Crow’s Field was the name Kaur and her childhood friends gave an unclaimed strip of farmland where she grew up in rural New England. During games this nameless acreage between the forest and the road became a magical no-man‘s-land, transforming into a metaphorical space where the imaginary and the real collide. Purposely engaging with versions of the photographic genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture allow the artist to access memories of Crow’s Field. This remembered place is impossible to document since it no longer exists except in memory, so Kaur photographs it by making fragmented atmospheric images that recall her idea of the uncanny utopia. Her pictures de-center the classic narrative structure through subtle dislocations of time and space, leaving out clues that would complete the narrative as a whole and inviting the viewer to participate in finishing the story. Invaded throughout by everyday natural elements that are almost too strange to believe, Kaur creates an otherworldy stream-of-consciousness meditation on memory in photographs- a freshly caught octopus becomes a pagan still life; a girl and her dog morph into a chimera at rest; a sunflower transforms into a baroque abstraction. Upon closer examination, a touch of menace often underlies the most familiar and genteel exteriors. Kaur seizes on the corroding sense of uneasiness that gnaws at her most cherished attachments. It’s not that she can’t go home again; it’s that home was never exactly what she thought it was. https://sirikaur.com/Cruiserweight Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:33:18 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Cruiserweight Cruiserweight&nbsp;<img width="673" height="864" width_o="673" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99e73971cc976b7c93c4fbfb9f608464c55d0f54d19f51d739fff6c9fb57d628/Kaur_Kristie.jpg" data-mid="53521528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/673/i/99e73971cc976b7c93c4fbfb9f608464c55d0f54d19f51d739fff6c9fb57d628/Kaur_Kristie.jpg" /><img width="654" height="864" width_o="654" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c8e3eabb9b59bc35f5804eb16e67a0045312308182d71763d5545700697441a/Kaur_Vania.jpg" data-mid="53521529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/654/i/2c8e3eabb9b59bc35f5804eb16e67a0045312308182d71763d5545700697441a/Kaur_Vania.jpg" /><img width="1024" height="662" width_o="1024" height_o="662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad7f3b417a6de33f6d0fe90ade266df579a7bea0f727e5661fcf70798874a754/Kaur_ActionPicture-1.jpg" data-mid="53521520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad7f3b417a6de33f6d0fe90ade266df579a7bea0f727e5661fcf70798874a754/Kaur_ActionPicture-1.jpg" /><img width="624" height="864" width_o="624" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3747be30d13bcdf9832b4673f7389e3792b15c1258e7c54e4e056ab7b8eed50/Kaur_JosephandJeffrey.jpg" data-mid="53521527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/624/i/c3747be30d13bcdf9832b4673f7389e3792b15c1258e7c54e4e056ab7b8eed50/Kaur_JosephandJeffrey.jpg" /><img width="699" height="864" width_o="699" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1da5a8600fd6e2035ce4741a06ab22f1984a1cd75cd9188b51a25ea1613d1bdb/Kaur_Chris.jpg" data-mid="53521526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/699/i/1da5a8600fd6e2035ce4741a06ab22f1984a1cd75cd9188b51a25ea1613d1bdb/Kaur_Chris.jpg" /><img width="590" height="800" width_o="590" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1941429f43b069e26bfd7116241d8e336ae7dc70bb7c79f18980365663d44a00/Kaur_Aidett.jpg" data-mid="53521522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/590/i/1941429f43b069e26bfd7116241d8e336ae7dc70bb7c79f18980365663d44a00/Kaur_Aidett.jpg" /><img width="864" height="539" width_o="864" height_o="539" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6620da5a5074a0a194e5d250f1cde9d8150e67f9edbad5c4af35f5282c5ee7bc/Kaur_ActionPicture-2.jpg" data-mid="53521521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/6620da5a5074a0a194e5d250f1cde9d8150e67f9edbad5c4af35f5282c5ee7bc/Kaur_ActionPicture-2.jpg" /><img width="650" height="864" width_o="650" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10704275d30c53200e8976750401e021d03f377fd52046a4d6d2e17d8a683c65/Kaur_Alex.jpg" data-mid="53521523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/650/i/10704275d30c53200e8976750401e021d03f377fd52046a4d6d2e17d8a683c65/Kaur_Alex.jpg" /><img width="683" height="864" width_o="683" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34db36493bf949b6e2ea6df370ddb61c3f7253e4af01c667877ecd3df2605825/Kaur_Alyssa.jpg" data-mid="53521524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/683/i/34db36493bf949b6e2ea6df370ddb61c3f7253e4af01c667877ecd3df2605825/Kaur_Alyssa.jpg" /><img width="664" height="864" width_o="664" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ee1906c50373cec869db9619b265894b9f0ca58877543c3217c75be4d14c786/Kaur_Brian_and_Ken.jpg" data-mid="53521525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/664/i/3ee1906c50373cec869db9619b265894b9f0ca58877543c3217c75be4d14c786/Kaur_Brian_and_Ken.jpg" /><img width="660" height="864" width_o="660" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/612ccc2cee55f9631d1c59e2a154766c90608bcdf1806e722f782a016c5e9d03/Kaur_Vince.jpg" data-mid="53521530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/660/i/612ccc2cee55f9631d1c59e2a154766c90608bcdf1806e722f782a016c5e9d03/Kaur_Vince.jpg" /> ︎ Portraits are the byproduct of conflict. They offer an outline of the negotiation between competing agendas, not only between that of the artist and the sitter, but also between one’s internal idealized image, and the one that is culturally ascribed to us. Despite its seeming stability, the portrait is located at the uncomfortable midpoint between self and other, the accumulation of myriad forces that are impossible to represent. It is this ambiguity, these absent conditions, that lend portraiture its seduction. The photographs of wresters in Cruiserweight function as heroic portraits. These young athletes are both vulnerable and proud, standing strong in their revealing clothes. I photograph the wrestlers right after their matches, their bodies elated from a win or downtrodden from a loss, but always physically spent. I want to photograph the dialectic that emerges between their young adolescent bodies and the personae of the feared competitor, between vulnerability and the desire to project an appearance of strength. The tight singlets create a general impression of androgyny; the girls look like boys, and the boys, with their bodily hair shaved, look a lot like the girls. The action photos are particularly interesting: they are all of female wresters, but the headgear hides their long hair, tricking most viewers into assuming they are male. My wrestlers attempt to project their most perfect selves through the lens: they yearn to show a physical ideal that will psyche out their opponents, revealing a sensuous, unsettling strength to my camera’s lens. &nbsp; https://sirikaur.com/Female-Photographer-Seeks-Portrait-Subjects Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:34:41 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Female-Photographer-Seeks-Portrait-Subjects Female Photographer Seeks Portrait Subjects&nbsp;<img width="864" height="864" width_o="864" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b54fe32fda7bd62cc57d2a21991d7ec5547e404bfa439881227a8ea62838a5e/Kaur_AngrySimi.jpg" data-mid="53521635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/0b54fe32fda7bd62cc57d2a21991d7ec5547e404bfa439881227a8ea62838a5e/Kaur_AngrySimi.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb3b184d493b4d650f1528173df44b6d502dd50bf063812b595f1137dee6930e/Kaur_Dustin.jpg" data-mid="53521637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/fb3b184d493b4d650f1528173df44b6d502dd50bf063812b595f1137dee6930e/Kaur_Dustin.jpg" /><img width="864" height="864" width_o="864" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2d8556a03c8f07d286aae5bfab2939363eaa193079e7c22c2439ad10c303cb2/Kaur_Charan.jpg" data-mid="53521636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/b2d8556a03c8f07d286aae5bfab2939363eaa193079e7c22c2439ad10c303cb2/Kaur_Charan.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dcaf1885d21f1428e9297cb53247a2a471334e871b9ef5e15e82142a77b513f/Kaur_Erin.jpg" data-mid="53521638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/7dcaf1885d21f1428e9297cb53247a2a471334e871b9ef5e15e82142a77b513f/Kaur_Erin.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd298d9847c4c6e5afe2854fd21f905176199a37f4e08c69c1393acdbf31de27/Kaur_Frederick.jpg" data-mid="53521639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/fd298d9847c4c6e5afe2854fd21f905176199a37f4e08c69c1393acdbf31de27/Kaur_Frederick.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c1ad4bea4948a02e83869cac9e8b98c83d86e5cf4c8418767468f851abc2cb5/Kaur_Heather.jpg" data-mid="53521640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/8c1ad4bea4948a02e83869cac9e8b98c83d86e5cf4c8418767468f851abc2cb5/Kaur_Heather.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a01ca678169d227d615f1376f503de77162bdb03c01cf7113484dd054b24b7e0/Kaur_Liliane.jpg" data-mid="53521642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/a01ca678169d227d615f1376f503de77162bdb03c01cf7113484dd054b24b7e0/Kaur_Liliane.jpg" /><img width="864" height="864" width_o="864" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d61c84d0522285a7a5a2da55edfd63b378f64efb86dfd1403ddb58842cce306d/Kaur_Peter.jpg" data-mid="53521643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/d61c84d0522285a7a5a2da55edfd63b378f64efb86dfd1403ddb58842cce306d/Kaur_Peter.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2fdc0c034f7ab7b6d9be212664373ee77a527c5d642404300a6827bdaf68b9b/Kaur_Petra.jpg" data-mid="53521644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/c2fdc0c034f7ab7b6d9be212664373ee77a527c5d642404300a6827bdaf68b9b/Kaur_Petra.jpg" /><img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6409120678cb6df83a81b6bf4e4e8bdbecbb61e8c7811764376a2de1bea6e16/Kaur_Robert.jpg" data-mid="53521645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/d6409120678cb6df83a81b6bf4e4e8bdbecbb61e8c7811764376a2de1bea6e16/Kaur_Robert.jpg" /><img width="864" height="864" width_o="864" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33fba3fec116775285b43dde2582688ea5472e3bfa057c5e3d79fc6295de67c0/Kaur_Jane.jpg" data-mid="53521641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/33fba3fec116775285b43dde2582688ea5472e3bfa057c5e3d79fc6295de67c0/Kaur_Jane.jpg" /><img width="864" height="864" width_o="864" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/796360f0c98aa52e4add50ada4bf0b50c64fc1d9f7b684afafbcf10b2778c274/Kaur_Simran.jpg" data-mid="53521705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/796360f0c98aa52e4add50ada4bf0b50c64fc1d9f7b684afafbcf10b2778c274/Kaur_Simran.jpg" /> ︎ I take photographs of strangers. They are people unknown to me, whose lives I briefly investigate through the act of photography. The strangers select themselves by responding to notices I post online, announcing that I need subjects for portraits. The fact that these individuals are from outside my sphere of existence is essential. Giving me permission to enter their lives satisfies a deep-seated curiosity I have nurtured for years. Watching people at cafes or chatting at parties, I am fascinated by people that I can never know anything about. My role as photographer gives me the key to accessing these anonymous existences. These staged portraits are concrete fictions: they are my fantasies about the lives of people who willingly invite me into their homes. Some of the people who want their picture taken are aspiring models; some are children of mothers who want a nice picture to give grandma. Others are simply lonely and enjoy the attention. Young girls can be awkward; old men can be graceful, yet all have a unique, strange beauty when I see them through the lens. During the portrait session, our agendas inevitably collide; I have a specific idea about the way I want the subjects to appear, and I control this through my choice of photographic tools: camera format, composition, and lighting. I try to enable their fantasies by using lighting and the medium format camera. Part of my function as photographer is to facilitate the sitter’s desire. The resulting pictures reveal the trace of this social negotiation, between my idea of how they should appear, and the way they see themselves. https://sirikaur.com/Half-of-the-Whole Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:35:19 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Half-of-the-Whole Half of the Whole&nbsp;<img width="587" height="864" width_o="587" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c60f6d3bc1993ce8404cc6c14204aa601fd6b21c0bfca758a4410baab5d0c48/Kaur_MapDarkroomExperiment-3.jpg" data-mid="53521728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/587/i/0c60f6d3bc1993ce8404cc6c14204aa601fd6b21c0bfca758a4410baab5d0c48/Kaur_MapDarkroomExperiment-3.jpg" /><img width="461" height="576" width_o="461" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79fe07f8c463575554b1b8a7e17545d77c0bb834fde9709b88c62b77daeb15e8/A-Little-Death-Darkroom-Experiment--3.jpg" data-mid="53521709" border="0" 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height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/295c14bf0b2c5022686b35733937b550fb2cc536565f57cdad12ec3cdb6b65b8/Kaur_WhirlpoolDarkroom-Experiment--5--wild.jpg" data-mid="53521756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/756/i/295c14bf0b2c5022686b35733937b550fb2cc536565f57cdad12ec3cdb6b65b8/Kaur_WhirlpoolDarkroom-Experiment--5--wild.jpg" /> ︎ In 2007 and 2008 I undertook a photographic exploration of time and light, traveling to Kitt Peak in Arizona to photograph outer space. With the help of planetary scientists, I captured pictures of distant galaxies on a digital sensor attached to a Meade solar telescope. After shooting, I returned to the traditional darkroom for a series of what I term “experiments”. The darkroom process begins by making a physical negative from the digitally captured astro-images, by embodying light as material form. I follow the principles of traditional color darkroom printing, a subtractive color system, using cyan, magenta, and yellow filters to remove various colors of light from the negative. Half of the picture is in the negative, and the other half is in the positive. The two halves can never be united in one picture. I draw on both negative and positive with various chemicals. I make contact prints that render the negative’s colors in reverse, and expose the light from the enlarger to various filters and gels. There is a bizarre dislocation that occurs where I wonder, what makes these photographs different from those in “Sky &amp; Telescope” magazine? The answer lies in the way they have been manipulated, the way the pixels become grain that becomes physical dots of color on paper. I’m going back to basics, back to the sheer joy of playing with color and line on paper, of drawing with light. This project re-engages with one of the simplest and most basic purposes of photography: to show us what we would otherwise remain unseen. I’m using science &amp; technology to show my particular romantic view of the medium of photography, where the failure and power of the medium cohere in material form. https://sirikaur.com/Know-Me-for-the-First-Time Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:35:49 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Know-Me-for-the-First-Time Know Me for the First Time&nbsp;<img width="864" height="657" width_o="864" height_o="657" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b2b1ac2c4144dc45263e10b98359336505096962738da82b1dac08d44a90e61/Kaur_Otto_20x30_2011_pigmentprint.jpg" data-mid="59837296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/2b2b1ac2c4144dc45263e10b98359336505096962738da82b1dac08d44a90e61/Kaur_Otto_20x30_2011_pigmentprint.jpg" /><img width="860" height="574" width_o="860" height_o="574" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e31b94a6bbb2c8b52cd893f6eefdd746edb4d8234ee361e35eb930ec20121c68/Kaur_AllofaSudden-IMissEveryone_20X30_2011_pigmentprint.jpg" data-mid="53521928" border="0" 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In Know Me for the First Time, I continue my visual investigations into longing, desire, history, and memory, both private and public. In a world beset by fear, war and the specter of ecological disaster, yearning for a safe haven has become part of everyday living. I use photographs to suggest a poetic counter-world, while acknowledging the abysmal and the uncanny lurking beneath the surface of utopian fantasies. These images, originating in diverse locations including Iceland, New England, Alaska and Southern California, reveal an artistic practice that is deeply personal, yet universal, oscillating between anxiety and yearning for a better world. My pictures present psychologically charged places and individuals whose emotional states teeter between despair and redemption. Know Me For the First Time represents my stand against the relentless march of time, and an embrace of life’s beautiful and inescapably painful unfolding. The photographs engage the Western canon—from the Baroque to photorealist painting, from German Romanticism to contemporary portraiture. Inspired by mysticism, spirituality, and the occult, I weave visual echoes from my past to create an evocative, dreamy universe uniquely my own in both its formal qualities and narrative themes. ︎ Shop the book https://sirikaur.com/SHE-TELLS-ALL Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:36:04 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/SHE-TELLS-ALL SHE TELLS ALL&nbsp;<img width="824" height="1080" width_o="824" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/986cd976c3a0b3497a0700c1845d2750808d3fb28398f2d7e9a198a2c034e757/Kaur_STA_AmandaSmoke_30x40___pigmentprint_2019.jpg" data-mid="53522021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/824/i/986cd976c3a0b3497a0700c1845d2750808d3fb28398f2d7e9a198a2c034e757/Kaur_STA_AmandaSmoke_30x40___pigmentprint_2019.jpg" /><img width="822" height="1080" width_o="822" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ab4bbf2889b4d5585d5844299cd7abbc129b9de83274a79e7473689acc0ecec/Kaur_STA_Belle_10x7_pigmentprint_2019.jpg" 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The title SHE TELLS ALL references one of these signs discovered by Kaur on her journey through LA’s occult community. The sign calls to mind both the skeptic, who doubts the power of the clairvoyant, and the power of divine feminine energy that Kaur claims as her own. The consequence is a timely and revealing look at contemporary mystics, material culture, and the nature of identity itself. Kaur’s impetus to document and explore physical manifestations of the performative nature of identity originated as she was growing up in an American Sikh ashram in Boston during the 1970’s New Age movement. Through her group’s all-white turban-clad dress code, she experienced firsthand the physical performance of identity. As a transplant to LA, Kaur immediately felt the connection between her unusual Northeastern New Age upbringing and LA’s unique and magnetic counterculture. From legendary figures such as artist, performer, poet, and occult practitioner Cameron to the freedom of 1960’s hippies, Los Angeles has long been a mecca for those seeking freedom in both the spiritual and art realms. As an artist, Kaur is interested in the unique power of portraiture to elicit this performative nature of identity. In this new body of work, SHE TELLS ALL, Kaur engages questions of identity performance by exploring an ever-present and wildly diverse American identity: the modern American witch. Witches are contemporary practitioners of the ancient tradition of paganism, which includes multiple and diverse religious and spiritual beliefs centered on nature worship and humans’ innate connection to magic. However, the aesthetic experience of the American witch is not neutral; it’s camp. The theatrical personae of many of the witches Kaur encounters denotes their status as citizens of this surreal city, where even mysticism is influenced by Hollywood. Kaur photographs these individuals in the context of their material world, where she finds commonplace identity markers such as crystal balls, burning incense and yes, neon signs denoting the mystic. There’s a playfulness there and a real performance of the hyper-stylized self. Yet Kaur’s photographs use these identity markers as a starting point to create a visual record of something more intriguing and ephemeral. The women in Kaur’s imagery identify with a variety of practices, traditions, and beliefs; her subjects self-identify as witches, but also as psychics, clairvoyants, light workers, mediums, spirit guides, healers, as Mexican witches known as brujas, as initiates in the Afro-Cuban practice of Santeria, and as Druids, among others. Most of the people depicted in Kaur’s images claim several of these labels simultaneously, creating fluid and individual identities, for example in Kaur’s photograph Camille, Lucumí Aborisha Initiate and Reiki Master Teacher we see a beautiful young woman lying in the brilliant LA sunlight surrounded by tokens of the fortune-teller: cards, crystals, and astrological symbols. Camille, who lives in LA but is originally from Detroit, follows the Lucumí tradition, a variation of the Afro-Cuban practice of Santeria, both of which originated in Western Africa. Camille is simultaneously aware of the physical performance of her identity, achieved by dressing herself in stunning white robes alongside props, and yet she is also deeply spiritual and sincere in her spiritual beliefs. The identities of all of the witches Kaur depicts are innately performative and fraught with contradiction, and this is what compels Kaur.&nbsp; Her portraits reveal more than just performance and costumery, as the presence of real human identities emerge rich with complication and wild with an intangible otherness that engages a range of viewer, the enchanted and the skeptical alike. The&nbsp; concept of witchcraft, a wide-ranging system of beliefs that engage and explore our connections with nature, with the unseen, and with magic, is a tool we can use to find meaning in dark times such as in America today, when many of us have given up hope. There are questions in this world without answers, and answers without questions, yet we still yearn to know all. In SHE TELLS ALL the power of the divine feminine shines from Kaur’s images, where diverse and resplendent women stake their claim to be seen and to hold forth their light to illuminate a path for our future. https://sirikaur.com/This-Kind-of-Face Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:36:23 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/This-Kind-of-Face This Kind of Face&nbsp;<img width="648" height="864" width_o="648" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d12ecd689c04df08c89f6e8f361293fa86a02522670a66e7d4566c05c9c0f983/Kaur_Abe.jpg" data-mid="53523100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/648/i/d12ecd689c04df08c89f6e8f361293fa86a02522670a66e7d4566c05c9c0f983/Kaur_Abe.jpg" /><img width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9be5eeb4b3b84b21e4f604d1d0ec224b144d3c7569f80bdaa0633496755f1c4b/ArnoldwithTeddy.jpg" data-mid="53523099" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7356e4d8bd1f8fd6c511df3ec8fba41191d2917b76d7d8ee865575b1b98fdf2/Kaur_JulieAndrews.jpg" data-mid="53523947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/648/i/b7356e4d8bd1f8fd6c511df3ec8fba41191d2917b76d7d8ee865575b1b98fdf2/Kaur_JulieAndrews.jpg" /> ︎ My series This Kind of Face captures impersonators who spend much of their daily life as costumed celebrity look-alikes. I initially set out to photograph the moment when the subject of a photograph lets down their guard and cracks appear in the everyday performance of the idea of self. Impersonators offer an exaggerated instance of this schism, representing conflict on the surface of their bodies in the uncomfortable conflation of their everyday existence with the aggrandized construction they attempt to embody. As we look closely at the subjects of these photographs we see people who are not quite living out fantasies of being the rich and famous. Rather, they are look-alikes in the business of being a doppelganger, providing a tangible vessel for the audience’s already media-saturated imagination. Like my subjects, who fashion themselves after specific glamorized Hollywood and media constructions, I found myself over the course of the project impersonating the production of celebrity photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber. I imitated Hollywood industry headshots and US Weekly paparazzo pictures, and created my own 4x5 photographic versions of Warhol’s Marilyns and dictators. Together the pictures in This Kind of Face function as playful hybridic references to the multiplicity of possibilities existing within the expansive field of photographic portraiture. ︎ &nbsp;View video series&nbsp;︎ Shop the book https://sirikaur.com/This-Kind-of-Face-Videos Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:45:44 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/This-Kind-of-Face-Videos This Kind of Face Videos&nbsp; My series This Kind of Face captures impersonators who spend much of their daily life as costumed celebrity look-alikes. I initially set out to photograph the moment when the subject of a photograph lets down their guard and cracks appear in the everyday performance of the idea of self. Impersonators offer an exaggerated instance of this schism, representing conflict on the surface of their bodies in the uncomfortable conflation of their everyday existence with the aggrandized construction they attempt to embody. As we look closely at the subjects of these photographs we see people who are not quite living out fantasies of being the rich and famous. Rather, they are look-alikes in the business of being a doppelganger, providing a tangible vessel for the audience’s already media-saturated imagination. Like my subjects, who fashion themselves after specific glamorized Hollywood and media constructions, I found myself over the course of the project impersonating the production of celebrity photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber. I imitated Hollywood industry headshots and US Weekly paparazzo pictures, and created my own 4x5 photographic versions of Warhol’s Marilyns and dictators. Together the pictures in This Kind of Face function as playful hybridic references to the multiplicity of possibilities existing within the expansive field of photographic portraiture. ︎ &nbsp;View works︎ Shop the book ︎ https://sirikaur.com/Exhibits Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:28:54 +0000 sirikaur.com https://sirikaur.com/Exhibits Exhibits SHE TELLS ALL 2019 at Eric Buterbaugh, Los Angeles <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aad6ad41485013ccb428a75e52799380c25eca5d846a50832804ddacbe69ba9/shetellsall_install_1.jpg" data-mid="60152355" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aad6ad41485013ccb428a75e52799380c25eca5d846a50832804ddacbe69ba9/shetellsall_install_1.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80a98413c4855d8cfd81229eeb51ef14a6ba2c0844c231a9a349a2fcb55ecac2/shetellsall_install_2.jpg" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56f2797efeb20f1707f138fee60eb93da12e46128e3b18d10d0049c636256bec/CrowsField_Install-6.jpg" data-mid="60295817" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56f2797efeb20f1707f138fee60eb93da12e46128e3b18d10d0049c636256bec/CrowsField_Install-6.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9cbb2ccb1e3f681590724fc341a89ee632ef9cb354a72d11904ee0cb683730d/CrowsField_Install-5.jpg" data-mid="60295816" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9cbb2ccb1e3f681590724fc341a89ee632ef9cb354a72d11904ee0cb683730d/CrowsField_Install-5.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8b20bb558de13078949fb19b9969845a93015e5800eb5d6f93332696f0d76e/CrowsField_Install-4.jpg" data-mid="60295815" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" 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height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94b60877cacdffb855a4f156889ad66cca53540a9bedd1ebed83194db477e4b3/ThisKinfOfFace-Install-7.jpg" data-mid="60153158" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94b60877cacdffb855a4f156889ad66cca53540a9bedd1ebed83194db477e4b3/ThisKinfOfFace-Install-7.jpg" /> ︎ &nbsp;View works︎ Shop the book &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Rob and Heather and Chris and Otto and Koral... 2014 at Vermont Center for Photography, Vermont <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/239e1fa62a8d3e38410ecbca2b80008cb1a9d674e55a80efce37d350e535ee65/VCP_2014_WEB1.jpg" data-mid="63686245" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/239e1fa62a8d3e38410ecbca2b80008cb1a9d674e55a80efce37d350e535ee65/VCP_2014_WEB1.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e51cb3865beb4247a49dfd75f7f137ab28bfc062694055c699d305e69aa4325/VCP_2014_WEB2.jpg" data-mid="63686246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e51cb3865beb4247a49dfd75f7f137ab28bfc062694055c699d305e69aa4325/VCP_2014_WEB2.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98c8cc6ae7087453ad7c0fe516ae0f470eab7f83499080c3e0fc995986c3add8/VCP_2014_WEB3.jpg" data-mid="63686247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98c8cc6ae7087453ad7c0fe516ae0f470eab7f83499080c3e0fc995986c3add8/VCP_2014_WEB3.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6ae38e9c1732f2c1859afb7025716da1cf51f3bd61c1d4df8589fcbb75fa097/VCP_2014_WEB4.jpg" data-mid="63686248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6ae38e9c1732f2c1859afb7025716da1cf51f3bd61c1d4df8589fcbb75fa097/VCP_2014_WEB4.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efd844613a1f95f3b219d5fd6c41a475224c1a1a977d90522647b4caa4d92ce9/VCP_2014_WEB5.jpg" data-mid="63686249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efd844613a1f95f3b219d5fd6c41a475224c1a1a977d90522647b4caa4d92ce9/VCP_2014_WEB5.jpg" /> ︎ &nbsp;View works Half of the Whole 2013 at Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2747564bdd1e57e532d2b933ff8baba31cdb13510f6185233902349cc92e33f7/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_1.jpg" data-mid="60153243" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2747564bdd1e57e532d2b933ff8baba31cdb13510f6185233902349cc92e33f7/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_1.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/037d38ff888a33ac5b4c44d40460db5ca85c5111a5bcfdb3e7b8de4f5956ff43/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_2.jpg" data-mid="60153245" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/037d38ff888a33ac5b4c44d40460db5ca85c5111a5bcfdb3e7b8de4f5956ff43/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_2.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84ceed1b6cea37b8dc9dd45390c70aaf776d934a0c0cfc811bb95807d8d23904/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_3.jpg" data-mid="60153246" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84ceed1b6cea37b8dc9dd45390c70aaf776d934a0c0cfc811bb95807d8d23904/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_3.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/917e6283f1543226cab08c7b996b650b6aefdeab94ae9a6d36f9ccaa0696c8e7/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_4.jpg" data-mid="60153248" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/917e6283f1543226cab08c7b996b650b6aefdeab94ae9a6d36f9ccaa0696c8e7/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_4.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fff3db6916a18c16f2bfc6cd87371b14e48febf31c861db6d929994b1ed286ec/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_5.jpg" data-mid="60153249" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fff3db6916a18c16f2bfc6cd87371b14e48febf31c861db6d929994b1ed286ec/HalfOfTheWhole_Install_5.jpg" /> ︎ View works Know Me for the First Time 2011 at Blythe Projects, Los Angeles <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1690672b2c8d834d8ff405e37217da6ee923ab0707c37ab3ea420a9586fa5540/web_Kaur_KnowMe_Install-1.jpg" data-mid="60153285" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom="true" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d539e8b29e7450b8cd527e7135af72936f0f443c2f1176487b0a39308e3caf7/web_Kaur_KnowMe_Install-4.jpg" data-mid="60153288" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d539e8b29e7450b8cd527e7135af72936f0f443c2f1176487b0a39308e3caf7/web_Kaur_KnowMe_Install-4.jpg" /> <img width="1153" height="864" width_o="1153" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5a6e2476ccf314c343cab405902922173e4fe2cbd0f76f32e6d5841770a7943/web_Kaur_KnowMe_Install-5.jpg" data-mid="60153289" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5a6e2476ccf314c343cab405902922173e4fe2cbd0f76f32e6d5841770a7943/web_Kaur_KnowMe_Install-5.jpg" /> ︎ &nbsp;View works︎ Shop the book