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A ceramic flip-flop which functions as an incense holder for twenty Nag Champa incense sticks. Available in two variants: Pigmented, glazed stoneware (blue), or Slip-decorated earthenware (brown/ochre). Each edition is unique so may vary from the pieces pictured here.
Kaur’s insertion of twenty incense sticks into the flip-flop subverts the ideal of a spiritual ritual: by implementing a lowly object as a devotional device, Kaur humorously reflects on the cultural appropriation that is present in the contemporary wellness industry, whereby spiritual objects (e.g. incense sticks) and practices (e.g. meditation) are removed from their philosophical roots and commodified.
Born in Glasgow, 1986, Jasleen Kaur lives and works in London. She is the winner of the 2024 Turner Prize. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video and writing.
Her work has been shown at Tramway, Scotland (2023), Touchstones Rochdale (2021), Wellcome Collection, London (2021), Serpentine Civic, London (2020), Glasgow Women’s Library, Scotland (2019), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2019), MIMA, Middlesbrough (2018), Cubitt Gallery, London (2018), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2017), Jerwood Space, London (2015). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-de-leone. She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2024 and the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award in 2021.
