The exhibition Remembering at the Serpentine Gallery presents a deeply immersive exploration of New Delhi-based painter Arpita Singh’s six-decade-long career. Curated by Tamsin Hong, Exhibitions Curator at the Serpentine, this first institutional solo showing is both a critical milestone for the artist and a valuable opportunity for global audiences to engage with the evolving trajectory of Indian contemporary art. Singh’s works, spanning a range of media from early watercolours and ink drawings to large-scale oil paintings, underscore a commitment to complex, multilayered narratives that are at once personal, social and political.
The exhibition takes a multifaceted approach to Singh's art. The selection of 165 works not only demonstrates the breadth of her artistic evolution but also brings forth the ways in which Singh has navigated and responded to historical events, personal loss and broader social shifts. For British and global audiences, this exhibition functions as an introduction to Singh’s distinct visual language that marries the local (Indian) with the global modern – folk and miniature traditions of India, modernist languages of abstraction, expressionism and surrealism, cartographic studies of countless world maps and incessant variations of mark-making.
