Rajiv Menon Contemporary

In his first solo exhibition outside of India, Punjab-based artist Gurjeet Singh presents twelve soft sculptures that involve forms of rupture and repair, and the countless frictions in between. The works engage directly with queer liberation movements across India, using the stitch as a gesture to suture the affective with the political.

In his first solo exhibition outside of India, Punjab-based artist Gurjeet Singh presents twelve soft sculptures that involve forms of rupture and repair, and the countless frictions in between. The works engage directly with queer liberation movements across India, using the stitch as a gesture to suture the affective with the political.

While art from South Asia is often positioned through the divide between the Eastern and Western worlds, within the region, the distinction between North and South remains especially striking. Regionalism is a driving force in South Asian art, where local perspective often supersedes the idea of the nation.