Artist: Arpita Singh

Review: “beautiful chaos reigns in India’s tumultuous past” - Eddy Frankel, The Guardian

“Remembering draws from old memories from which these works emerged. Whether I am aware or not, there is something happening at my core. It is how my life flows.”
- Arpita Singh

Serpentine presents Remembering, the first institutional solo exhibition of Arpita Singh’s work in London. The exhibition showcases works selected in consultation with the artist from her prolific career which expands over six decades.

Born in Baranagar in 1937, Singh emerged in the 1960s, developing a painting practice that brings together Surrealism and figuration with Indian Court painting narratives. She combined this with periods of abstraction, using pen, ink, and pastels to form dynamic lines and perforations on the surface to create layers and textures.

Remembering at Serpentine North explores the full breadth of her practice, ranging from large-scale oil paintings to more intimate watercolours and ink drawings.

The paintings on view celebrate Singh’s endless experimentation with colour and mark making to figuratively explore emotional responses to social upheaval and international humanitarian crises.