Born 1980, Delhi, India
Lives and works in Gurgaon, India

Throughout her career, Sumakshi Singh has developed a spontaneous and responsive approach to material and space. Her practice is characterised by rigorous explorations of spatial intervention that play in the gap between conditioned knowledge and direct perception, and in the spaces between physical object and illusory experience. The artist’s recent, ongoing body of work has focused on ‘groundless thread drawings’, which involve a laborious studio construction process that resonates with Singh’s earlier practices, which saw her dedicated to materially intensive site-specific interventions.

The architectural features of Singh’s grandparents’ house in Delhi have become the focus of her recent sculptural studies in thread and shadow. In Afterlife, threaded windows, doors, staircases and other architectural elements capture the house frozen in time, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. Lightly strung across walls or stretched like veils in space, the architectural forms wrap around corners and fold in on themselves, becoming delicate and malleable, like the spectral collection of memories they represent.