Mohini Kaur

Mohini Kaur’s practice begins in sensation, where knowledge is received through touch and movement. She paints directly with her hands, guided by somatic awareness, and works with inherited materials including kumkum, silk and sacred ash. Kumkum gathers and thickens, at times clotted and excessive, resisting predictability. Ash settles into the surface, grounding it, while silk absorbs and disperses pigment fluidly. Both material and process take part in Mohini Kaur’s enacted spiritual inquiry. 

Through large-scale, bodily gestures, she creates space for the female body as both subject and method. The work moves through cycles of tension, release and renewal, attending to the pull between the maternal and the destructive, nurture and abandon, and the delicate and the grotesque. These opposing forces are held in relation, allowing contradiction to remain present within the work.

Mohini Kaur approaches her practice through a framework she calls The Long Ancestral Body. Here, the work situates the self within a larger ecological and ancestral continuum, where these relations remain alive. The body becomes a place where what lies beyond it is encountered, held in tension and never fully contained.