Transience Monuments Solo Show by Sumakshi Singh
BOOTH 3E
The exhibition showcases a set of embroidered sculptures reflecting on the personal and cultural architectures that shape our sense of meaning and belonging — reimagining spaces and reenacting memories.
From demolished structures to fading monuments, the exhibition unfolds from the artist’s personal archive, weaving together inheritance and imagination. Singh creates life-size staircases recalling her ancestral home and columns inspired by the 12th-century Qutub Minar ( victory tower). As solid forms collapse and lose their significance, Singh offers a poetic reimagination of “soft monuments” that hold the weight of memories and losses, proposing repair through craft and care.
Presented within the monumental architecture of Monnaie de Paris - “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.
Singh’s
artworks have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and
museum exhibitions across Australia, India, the U.K., China, the USA,
Canada, France, Italy, Serbia, and Switzerland. Notable exhibition
venues include Kiran Nadar Museum of art, New Delhi (2025); The Institutum, Singapore (2024); South Asia Institute, Chicago (2024); Vadehra Contemporary Art Gallery, New Delhi (2024); The Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland (2022); Saatchi Gallery, London (2016); Kochi Biennale, Kochi (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon (2013); and MAXXI Museum, Rome
(2011), among others. Singh's artist residencies include MacDowell Colony (USA), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (USA), Djerassi Foundation (USA), Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy), Camargo Foundation (France), CAMAC – Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre (France), and Sculpture Space (USA).
She is the recipient of several awards, including the Loewe Craft Prize, special mention in 2025, the Asia Arts Future Game Changer Award by the Asia Society in 2022 the YFLO Award (from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry) in 2019, an Illinois Arts Council Award in 2007, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award in 2005.