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AYESHA SINGH

Cross-Hatchings: New Delhi-Perth Residency

Cross-Hatchings: New Delhi-Perth Residency

While on residency in Boorloo (Perth), Delhi based artist, Ayesha Singh will research the movement of people and communities in and out of the city. With a focus on architecture, she will consider the histories of communities that have been hidden, displaced and removed, responding to this research through the development of site-specific installations, conversations and community gatherings.  

Along with WA artist Sid Pattni, Ayesha Singh inaugurates Cross-Hatchings, a new partnership between PICA and Khōj that enables mid-career artists to develop their work in new cultural contexts, building global networks and sharing their projects with new audiences.

Ayesha Singh examines built architecture as spaces that embed power dynamics, expose the intricate politics inherent in nation-building exercises, migration, displacement, and function as a location of identity – embodying aspiration, desire, and belief. Through critical spatial interventions that emphasise collaboration and coexistence her works aim to counter established narratives to unpack layers of alteration and erasure of history through construction, restoration, and destruction. This results in their research being experienced through participatory performances with poetry, kinetic sculptures, sculptural line-drawings, public installations of scaffold and images that are created with community involvement, video, sculpture and often graphite drawings on paper.  

Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors.

This exchange residency is made possible with the support of the Department of Local Government, Sport & Cultural Industries through a Sector Development Grant, North Metropolitan TAFE and our exchange partner Khōj.