Keerat Kaur is a multi-hyphenate Canadian artist and architect with Sikh-Panjabi roots. Her practice manifests through painting, sculpture, writing, music, and architecture. Drawing inspiration from Sikh philosophical texts, Kaur employs the art of metaphor to propose new ways of understanding our relationship to nature and spirituality.
This exhibition, Poetics of Vitality, focuses on a selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings connected by their interpretations of three symbolic motifs: the heart, the pomegranate, and the legendary horse named Nila. Pairings of two and three-dimensional artworks—imaginative compositions that tell stories drawn from ancient Sikh prose and the artist’s own writings—resemble sacred altars.
Perhaps her most conceptually ambitious work to date is Heart House, in which the technical precision of architectural drafting collides with a surrealist sensibility to reimagine domestic spaces as vital and enchanting realms.
Poetics of Vitality is an invitation to enter, and immerse ourselves in, Kaur’s contemplative spaces, in which natural, built, and mystical worlds—real and imagined—seamlessly entwine.
