Simranpreet Anand: Living With The Eternal
Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of ceremonial fabrics, lenticular prints, and embroidered photographs considers the notion of the “eternal” in terms of religious significance, as well as the synthetic nature of products manufactured to last forever. Collapsing commercial and domestic spaces, her exhibition at The Polygon Gallery features a living room — with custom wallpaper, a couch, and a television — beside the Gallery’s gift shop, probing multivalent ideas of worship, value, and sustainability in the 21st century.
About the artist
Simranpreet Anand is an artist, curator and cultural worker creating and working between the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo peoples (Surrey, BC) and the traditional territories of the Kalapuya people (Eugene, OR). Her art practice is informed by familial and community histories, often engaging materials and concepts drawn from the histories of Punjab and the Punjabi diaspora, and their disruption by global capitalism, colonialism and migration. Anand is a faculty member in Visual Arts at Lane Community College. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Michigan, and a BFA with Honours from the University of British Columbia. She is the winner of the 2022 Philip B. Lind Prize for Emerging Artists.
Opening Celebration on Sunday, April 19
Curated by Elliott Ramsey
Simranpreet Anand: Living with the Eternal is part of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program.
Generously supported by
Deux Mille Foundation
Media Partner
North Shore News
Banner Image: Simranpreet Anand, Softness in the Sikh Home, 2024. Photo: Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography, UM.
