Russna Kaur at Wil Aballe Art Projects

Artist: Russna Kaur

Exhibition title: I Thik The Kracdil wil et Sme and No Bute witse sme a gin

Venue: Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP, Vancouver, Canada

Date: September 11 – October 16, 2021

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP, Vancouver

I Thik The Kracdil wil et Sme and No Bute witse sme a gin. (I think the crocodile will eat me and nobody will see me again.)

Remember the beautiful eight-faced faces?

So charged,
held together
going from one to another.

Their paths of destruction rarely spiral. Innocent like crushed waves.

Heat flow, flew back.
An unusually bright sign – do you see the sign? What if it disappeared? Would anyone notice?

Forced to speed, forced to rise,
wind would whirl ways. Four ways,
line inside a time. Rocks and knots. Caught in shock.

Above the striking hour, the peaks set in.
We fall back
set BACK again.
With dust between nails, cracks and hats, snacks sweet smacks.

Forced to speed, forced to rise – what is the shape of a small balloon?

Three ways can not, and not,
or not.

The glow is so far away, it cannot be heard. It cannot be heard, the glow is so far away! The dust that was once life flows down the stream, it cannot be heard.

FLASHED belief,
it reaches up with destructive effects.
Finding it might cut right through, it might separate. It is not necessary in two ways.
Such exactness is neither
desirable
or
necessary.

The shortest route between points with high time
crosses at any moment.
A knot.

Irregular sunsets – differences in time exist highest in the sky.
Exist in mirrors and speech.

One way, as often as desired (pit of desire, dark grey or black) It is kept spinning – almost always equal
and set in motion.
Used in stoney space, scorched and blown down…a great fall.

Their own magnetic accident.

That feeling of being surrounded comes alive in many ways. Is something missed?
To wear a face you still have –
Is something missed, after it is no longer visible

for a while…?

Once inside it comes alive.
How they played striking colour would be shown a fresh shattered vibrancy,
a broken vase shattered into many pieces.

Still here,
in a place that can be found. Still here,
all back, time away
to reflect memory.
Shattered freedom pushes blue life
intimate and intense
of space and shadowy feelings. Blue vivid.
Moody still.

Their own magnetic accident.

Russna Kaur, I Thik The Kracdil wil et Sme and No Bute witse sme a gin, 2021, exhibition view, Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP, Vancouver

Russna Kaur, High time (the striking hour), 2021, Acrylic, cut canvas, spray paint and sawdust on canvas and wood panel 48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Russna Kaur, Vase face, 2021, Oil pastel on wood panel 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Russna Kaur, FLASHED, 2021, Acrylic, oil pastel and paper cut outs on canvas and wood panel 48 x 78 in (121.9 x 198.1 cm)

Russna Kaur, One split, 2021, Acrylic and pastel on canvas 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Russna Kaur, Crosses, 2021, Acrylic, oil pastel, papier-mâché and sawdust on canvas and wood panel 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm)

Russna Kaur, What is the shape of a small balloon?, 2021 Acrylic, oil pastel and crayon on wood panel 30 x 24 in (76.2 x 61 cm)

Russna Kaur, Blue life, 2021, Acrylic, sawdust and oil pastel on canvas 60 x 60 in (152.4 x 152.4 cm)

Russna Kaur, Nice ending, 2021, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 48 x 72 in (121.9 x 182.9 cm)

Russna Kaur, “hot and molten, cooled together”, 2021 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)