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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Furnace Fruit, Karanjit Panesar (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Leeds Art Gallery, British Library)
Description: Contemporary artist Karanjit Panesar recasts stories of migrant labourers from Punjab working in British industrial foundries, exploring constructs of memory, and national myths in metal, through his film installation, Furnace Fruit (2024).
Karanjit Panesar’s practice considers the entanglements of labour, migration, memory, and empire. Furnace Fruit, their new exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, centres on the stories of the many Punjabi immigrants who, with the end of British colonial rule in South Asia, came to the UK and worked in metal foundries in the 1950s and 1960s - including members of the artist’s own family.
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