Aminder Virdee

Artist, Creator, Writer, Art and Creative Justice Facilitator, Community Organiser, and Founder

Bones and Star(e)s (2021)

“We dream of a day when disabled people with visible differences will no longer face the harm, violence, ridicule, and curiosity-fuelled diagnostic gaze of the stare. We dream for disabled BIPOC people to be seen, heard, uncensored & platformed. We dream we are seen for our raw authentic beauty on the outside and the inside.”

— Aminder Virdee

'Bones and Star(e)s' (2021-22) by Aminder Virdee.

Image Description(s)

There are five visual art works shown on a slideshow - the slideshow is static, and to see the next image, you must press the next and previous buttons.

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All black and whiteart works depict complex and intricate variations of white lines and geometric shapes on a black background, creating a symmetrical kaleidoscopic overview. The white lines are formed from bones and prosthetics visible in xrays from the artists personal medical archive.

‘Bones and Star(e)s’ (2021) is an archive of kaleidoscopic constellations formed from merging the visual components of the 'KaleidoSkeleton Ti' series & Virdee’s personal medical archives. These constellations accent Virdee’s bones & prosthetics - embodying draped lace, jewels & intricate Mendhi designs in honour & value of Disabled Brown beauty, ancestry, wisdom & joy that live hand-in-hand with multidimensional pain, resistance, grief & loss.

'Bones and Star(e)s', takes us to a new world that contrasts the colourful KaleidoSkeleton series. This rendition speaks to the invisible, hidden, censored and stolen stories in our world, those who are forcefully pushed to the margins. In this celestial sky, the hidden & censored voices shine bright, radiating as the stars they are. Astronomers stare at stars in beauty & awe - tracing these celestial objects, ephemera and phenomena to explain their physical properties, origins and evolution. But in society, these unnamed stars dream of disabled intersectional justice for their celestial bodies, and to have their BIPOC-disabled histories amplified.