Intimate Strangers
COOPER COLE•Sep 24, 2025 — Nov 08, 2025
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Intimate Strangers, the third solo exhibition by Jagdeep Raina at the gallery.
What does it mean to explore a kind of living, breathing, tangible historical memory that is still unfolding right in front of us over real-time?
Intimate Strangers is a body of work that includes poetry, embroidered textiles, ceramics, and works on paper. It draws from oral histories and conversations that document the lives of international students from South Asia, a community at the heart of Canada’s exploitative gig economy.
For Raina, these scenes were generated through time he spent with Laadliyan, a non-profit group in Brampton, Ontario, with a mission of empowering South-Asian residents and newcomers through education, engagement, and awareness. Raina began to hear about the various challenges that were impacting these individuals: economic exploitation, inflated tuition fees, precarious housing conditions,...More
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Intimate Strangers
COOPER COLE•Sep 24, 2025 — Nov 08, 2025
Press Release
COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Intimate Strangers, the third solo exhibition by Jagdeep Raina at the gallery.
What does it mean to explore a kind of living, breathing, tangible historical memory that is still unfolding right in front of us over real-time?
Intimate Strangers is a body of work that includes poetry, embroidered textiles, ceramics, and works on paper. It draws from oral histories and conversations that document the lives of international students from South Asia, a community at the heart of Canada’s exploitative gig economy.
For Raina, these scenes were generated through time he spent with Laadliyan, a non-profit group in Brampton, Ontario, with a mission of empowering South-Asian residents and newcomers through education, engagement, and awareness. Raina began to hear about the various challenges that were impacting these individuals: economic exploitation, inflated tuition fees, precarious housing conditions,...More
