Tramway’s cavernous gallery space has been turned into Jasleen Kaur’s internal landscape. It is populated with references pulled from her upbringing in her south Asian family in Pollokshields, just round the corner from the Glasgow gallery.
A giant replica Axminster carpet takes centre stage. Suspended above it is a vast print of the sky, expanded from an image taken in nearby Pollok Park. The print, slightly transparent, has objects littered on top, which you catch glimpses of as you look up through the clouds. The objects are debris from Kaur’s early life, remade from memory – political flyers, newspaper clippings and images of saints. Snaking across the print is a surreally long football scarf with the word LOOOOONGING knitted into it. A tracksuit lies close by, coloured the luminous orange of Irn-Bru and emblazoned with the words “CAN’T DO IT”. Layered choral voices – a sound work made with vocal teacher Marged Siôn – vibrate through the space.
