In collaboration with Gallery 193, Paris

21 - 26 October 2025

at Monnaie de Paris

The exhibition showcases a set of thread sculptures reflecting on the personal and cultural architectures that shape our sense of meaning and belonging — reimagining spaces and reenacting memories.

 

From demolished domestic structures to fading monuments, the exhibition weaves together inheritance and imagination.

 

Singh re-creates a life-size staircase from her ancestral home in New Delhi. It was built by her grandparents, who migrated from Pakistan to India in the post-independence era. Once a refuge for the displaced, later a site of festivities and family reunions, it now exists only in memories.

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Her columns are inspired by the colonnade found in the 12th-century Qutub Minar complex. Originally part of Jain and Hindu temples, later displaced into an Islamic complex, these witness to shifting histories are reimagined not as monuments of stone and solidity but as fragile traces. Flattened into a two-dimensional drawing of silk and nylon threads, the columns begin to dissolve with time and the circumstances of post colonial India.

 

As solid forms collapse and lose their substantiality, Singh offers a poetic reimagination of “soft monuments” that hold the weight of cultural memories and losses, proposing repair through craft and care.

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Transience Monuments invites us to reconsider what truly endures, proposing an idea of permanence that shifts from material weight to emotional resonance, existing in what is felt, remembered, and shared.