TWO SINISTRAL PALMS 2

Hardeep Pandhal:

Ethnographers, Anthropologists, Ethnologists, Social Scientists and Cultural Scientists are all committed to practices that breed knowledge for audiences at the expense of other audiences. Like a joke that fails to emit the intended laughter, the aforementioned wise men’s reportage too often chokes on its own regurgitations. They inhibit the reception of what should be, without contestation, impartial or untainted insights. So, presumptions are required to sustain the causes of these practitioners’ endeavours. So far gone, I have met with extreme profundity the sadness of failing to equate peacefully in myself the presence of two deeply rooted cultural histories. It would be diminishing then for me to omit from discussions about my work the fact that I am a British-Asian. However it would be an equally flawed enterprise, as I see it, to embark in my practice the deconstruction of my dissent blow-by-blow, bore-by-bore. Above all, what I want my viewers to assert upon encountering my work is the sensitivity I uphold when conveying the mutual conflict between both real and invented subjectivities.