Close Looking: Hey Hey Paula
Sarindar Dhaliwal. Hey Hey Paula, 1998. Installation consisting of 600 photographs, velvet curtain, rotary telephone and table, Overall (installed): 457.2 × 1981.2 cm (180 × 780 in.). Purchase, with funds from Joyce and Fred Zemans, 2020. © Sarindar Dhaliwal 2020/98
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Close Looking: Hey Hey Paula
Join curator Renée van der Avoird for a close look at Toronto artist Sarindar Dhaliwal’s Hey Hey Paula (1998), recently acquired by the AGO. A study of conformity and arranged marriage, this large-scale installation features 600 portraits appropriated from a newspaper engagement section, and a rotary telephone playing the 1960s ballad, "Hey Hey Paula", about falling in love. In this major immersive work, Dhaliwal deftly comments on female subjectivity and myths of romance that conform to dominant narratives.