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ਵਿਦਾਈ vidaai (farewell) by Jaspal Birdi
A Vidaai is a South Asian ritual dating back to a time when young women were offered as a gift of trade, or given up in treaty between kingdoms. The word itself which translates to farewell from Punjabi and Hindi, recalls the moment a bride bids goodbye to her parental household/homeland. This emotional ritual is still performed today by families of South Asian heritage.
Typically, post wedding ceremony, the groom goes to retrieve his bride from her parents’ home bearing gifts. There, the groom is greeted with games, offered tea and appetizers. Once it is time for the newlyweds’ departure, the Vidaai is performed.
In this moment, the bride becomes an abstract entity of the Goddess Lakshmi, deity of wealth and prosperity. To her side comes an aunt with an offering: A silver salver filled with grains of basmati rice, rose petals, and coins. Symbols of health, prosperity, and wealth.
As the bride leaves her parents’ home, she embraces and throws handfuls of the offering over her head. With every step forward to her new life, the aunt continues to follow the bride’s side with the dish until empty. The bride’s gestures to the past bless her family’s future in her absence.
In Jaspal Birdi’s three-dimensional images, each titled ਵਿਦਾਈ vidaai (farewell), she draws on this traditional ritual which continues to ignite deep emotions of joy and sorrow in a modern day and age. Using photogrammetry technology, Jaspal reconstructs memories she captured of her sister's Vidaai in 2010. In these two representations, they reveal how the Vidaai is typically performed by Sikh families in Canada.
Primary NFT holder is free to use in advertising, display privately and in groups, including virtual galleries, documentaries, and essays by the holder of the NFT, as long as the author Jaspal Birdi is credited. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works. Copyright remains with Jaspal Birdi.
In so many ways, women - like nature, animals and non-white people - are objectified. Seen as the weakest links of society, they must be aided and controlled. Or at least, this is what is tacitly and invisibly accepted in any patriarchal society. When we think of daughters, however, a connotation comes to mind with, presumably, the purest form of love: that of a blood relationship. How can a daughter be at the same time protected and exposed? How do her different roles coexist within her identity? The invited artists have reflected upon the suspended time in which a daughter is pure possibility, or on episodes that can irremediably change her life. On the collapse of biological destiny and culture, on legacy, or, eventually, on the direct implications of fulfilling her unvoluntary role as a daughter.
We will donate 25% of each sale to the project "Women and democracy", organised by the Onlus COSPE.
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ਵਿਦਾਈ vidaai (farewell) by Jaspal Birdi
A Vidaai is a South Asian ritual dating back to a time when young women were offered as a gift of trade, or given up in treaty between kingdoms. The word itself which translates to farewell from Punjabi and Hindi, recalls the moment a bride bids goodbye to her parental household/homeland. This emotional ritual is still performed today by families of South Asian heritage.
Typically, post wedding ceremony, the groom goes to retrieve his bride from her parents’ home bearing gifts. There, the groom is greeted with games, offered tea and appetizers. Once it is time for the newlyweds’ departure, the Vidaai is performed.
In this moment, the bride becomes an abstract entity of the Goddess Lakshmi, deity of wealth and prosperity. To her side comes an aunt with an offering: A silver salver filled with grains of basmati rice, rose petals, and coins. Symbols of health, prosperity, and wealth.
As the bride leaves her parents’ home, she embraces and throws handfuls of the offering over her head. With every step forward to her new life, the aunt continues to follow the bride’s side with the dish until empty. The bride’s gestures to the past bless her family’s future in her absence.
In Jaspal Birdi’s three-dimensional images, each titled ਵਿਦਾਈ vidaai (farewell), she draws on this traditional ritual which continues to ignite deep emotions of joy and sorrow in a modern day and age. Using photogrammetry technology, Jaspal reconstructs memories she captured of her sister's Vidaai in 2010. In these two representations, they reveal how the Vidaai is typically performed by Sikh families in Canada.
Primary NFT holder is free to use in advertising, display privately and in groups, including virtual galleries, documentaries, and essays by the holder of the NFT, as long as the author Jaspal Birdi is credited. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works. Copyright remains with Jaspal Birdi.
In so many ways, women - like nature, animals and non-white people - are objectified. Seen as the weakest links of society, they must be aided and controlled. Or at least, this is what is tacitly and invisibly accepted in any patriarchal society. When we think of daughters, however, a connotation comes to mind with, presumably, the purest form of love: that of a blood relationship. How can a daughter be at the same time protected and exposed? How do her different roles coexist within her identity? The invited artists have reflected upon the suspended time in which a daughter is pure possibility, or on episodes that can irremediably change her life. On the collapse of biological destiny and culture, on legacy, or, eventually, on the direct implications of fulfilling her unvoluntary role as a daughter.
We will donate 25% of each sale to the project "Women and democracy", organised by the Onlus COSPE.
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