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Permanent Address

India Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia

Permanent Address

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames

Installation area dimensions: 27 ft x 41 ft


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Permanent Address : Installation view

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames

Installation area dimensions: 27 ft x 41 ft


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Permanent Address : Installation view

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames

Installation area dimensions: 27 ft x 41 ft


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Permanent Address : Installation view

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames

Installation area dimensions: 27 ft x 41 ft


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Details: Permanent Address

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Permanent Address

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Permanent Address

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Right Facade

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Right Facade

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Permanent Address

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Cascading staircase

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread

Installation area dimensions: 10 ft x 19 ft (approximately)


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Cascading staircase

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Jaali

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Detail: Veda doors

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Permanent Address : Installation view

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

Permanent Address : Installation view

2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frame


Life-size fragmented architectural elements from artist’s (now demolished) ancestral home

The Making of Permanent Address

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PERMANENT ADDRESS

Sumakshi Singh

I am creating an immersive installation in which visitors will move through a labyrinth of life-sized, broken architectural fragments of a home. Crafted from delicate white thread—thinner than hair—these gossamer architectural membranes are suspended in air, reminiscent of memories drawn from the ether.

Though I have lived across states and countries, my idea of home remained tethered to 33 Link Road —a house built by my refugee grandparents in Delhi. Listed as our permanent address on official documents, it was a site of annual gatherings, stories, weddings, and sleepovers; a room at the back where my mother was born, and a room at the front where my grandfather died. 33 Link Road was considered ‘home’ not only by family, but by friends and the wider community—many of whom never officially lived there. This potent container of shared histories now stands demolished—its once-solid, sheltering surfaces dissolved into immaterial remembrance. As an homage to the afternoons spent in this home, knitting and embroidering with my grandmother, I recreated the architectural details of the house using thread.