Gurdeesh Nandra's working practice underlines the importance of found materials, which are commonly classed as rubbish. By demonstrating how low grade resources, such as cardboard can be viewed and valued as precious, the work makes subtle references to homelessness. This is enunciated through collecting materials from her surrounding environments; Nandra recycles and manipulates the found objects to give them a new life and purpose. The process of crafting her structures adopts the expertise that the homeless utilise to construct their night shelters, which are constantly reformed.

 

Fabricating temporary structures gives an insight to the feeling of being insecure, whilst questioning how society undervalues those living on the streets as they are overlooked, avoided and unaccepted. The impermanence and unsteadiness seen through the assemblages, mimics the fine line between those living a steady lifestyle and those who are homeless. Displaying her work inside public and secure architecture provides commentary on our economic and social fragility.

 

Nandra ultimately provokes her audience to consider that everyone lives under an umbrella of false security and that no person has absolute immunity from homelessness, hunger or poverty

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