Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser)

Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) is an artist duo whose work combines poetry and music, embedded across moving image, performance and textile, to conjure speculative futures and multiverses. H/D aspire toward a flat ontological ether in which all forms of life—stone, spirit, machine or human—are equal. H/D’s research orbits around (non)place and histories of migration, transnationalism and environmental cosmism to learn from the multiple materialities of contemporary existence. They are concerned with the (poly)rhythms of love and the bea(s)t of belonging. Hylozoic/Desires use metaphor as an event, as a force of attraction that holds otherwise distant entities together.

Hylozoic/Desires have exhibited at Serpentine, London; Desert X, CA; Shanghai Biennale; Biennale Gherdeina; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; TBA21, Madrid; Swiss Institute, NYC; MACBA, Barcelona among others. In 2025, they participated in the Islamic Arts Biennale, Sharjah biennale and the Bukhara biennale. Their most recent solos have toured a series of works on the metaphysics of salt at Somerset HouseTate Britain in London and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Bombay. They are currently the inaugural fellows of Getty’s Global Art and Sustainability program.