33 Link Road
Thread
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Detail from Mural wall, 33 Link Road
Thread and steel frame
78″ X 57″
Detail: Garden Doors, 33 Link Road
Thread and steel frame
83″ X 43.5″
Installation seen through Garden Doors, 33 Link Road
Constructed wall, steel frame and thread
83″ X 43.5″
Installation view
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Installation process: 33 Link Road
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Installation view and TV room window,
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Installation view
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
stairs
Thread and shadow
Left: 13ft X 3ft (approximately)
Right: 12ft X 5 ft (approximately)
Installation details
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Garden Doors, 33 Link Road
Constructed wall, steel frame and thread
83″ X 43.5″
Detail: viewer in installation
Thread and steel frames
Detail: viewer in installation
Thread and steel frames
Detail: Gate, 33 Link Road
Thread
Installation views
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Installation view
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
stairs
Thread and shadow
13ft X 3ft (approximately)
Detail: veda doors, 33 Link Road
Thread and steel frames
Details: viewer in installation
Thread and steel frames
Detail: Garden Doors, 33 Link Road
Constructed wall, steel frame and thread
83″ X 43.5″
Studio window
Thread and shadow
4ft X 2ft (approximately)
Installation view
Thread and steel frames
Room dimensions: 22ft X 30ft
Gate
Thread drawing embedded in and extending out of Cotton Rag Paper
190″ X 79″
Detail: Gate
Thread drawing embedded in and extending out of Cotton Rag Paper
190″ X 79″
Architectural fragments from the artist’s family home (33 Link Road) in exact life-size measurements.
33 Link Road: Specters of Home
For this exhibition, viewers are invited to inhabit an ethereal labyrinth of transparent architectural facades from 33 Link Road – Singh’s family home built in Delhi soon after partition, when her grandparents migrated from Pakistan to India.
Singh herself lived in several states and countries but the idea of home was continually tethered to this one address. A site of yearly gathering, story-telling, embroidering and knitting in the sun, family weddings and sleepovers, a room at the back where her mother was born and a room in the front where her grandfather died – this home, a container of potent memories, now lies unoccupied.
In place of brick and mortar, the fragile white thread weaves hard architecture into soft, spectral cob-webs of past memories. The architecture is experienced more as an apparition or a mirage, rather than solid form; white thread drawings hovering weightlessly in a white room, registering primarily through a play of light and shadow. Made to exact life-size dimensions, every nut, bolt, hinge and brick transforms into insubstantial, porous skins challenging the solidity of both – the form and the meaning of ‘home’. The language of memory finds resonance in these veil-like membranes; flattened as if preserved within the pages of book.
2024:
Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi
2023:
Exhibit 320, Delhi, India
CSMVS museum, Mumbai, India
KNMA (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art), Noida, India
2022:
Asia Pacific Triennial QAGOMA
2021:
Aicon Contemporary, New York & 1X1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2020:
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
2019:
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Hermès, The Chanakya, New Delhi
2019-current:
Architectural Thread Drawings
2018:
Wilfrid Israel Museum, Israel
Belgrade Biennale/ 58th October Salon, Serbia
2017:
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
India Art Fair/ FOCUS
C24 Gallery, New York, USA
2016:
Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK & Art Houz, Chennai, India
2015-current:
Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines