Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2025
LIP SERVICE TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL BY DARSHIKA SINGH
METHOD KALA GHODA
JAN 9 - FEB 16 2025
Lip Service to the Transcendental is a series of paintings that employ a process of rhythm and repetition, demonstrating their ability to turn something quantifiable and fixed into something qualitative and fluid.
Although repetition often approaches an idealised process, the work here resists perfection. As no singular gesture remains forever correct, the paintings bend to whim, memory, and fantasy, embracing the unassumed and the intuitive, akin to an evolutionary gene that spreads out, interacting with its environment, adapting, proliferating and mutating all at once.
This repetitive and rhythmic process births an ever-expanding third element - an air of truth - produced and sustained in the work’s layered structures. Atmosphere also asserts itself, turning into an extension of the artist’s hands in an attempt to harness and incorporate any extraneous energies to serve the work’s final intent - the truth of the moment.
This playful engagement within the process becomes an exploration of the innate; a primordial knowing that is forever known to the mind. What ultimately emerges is a bone-dry skeleton of the Self, stripped bare but alive, inviting deeper observation and engagement.
Darshika Singh
Darshika Singh (b. Lucknow) works across video and paintings. The current work focuses on: rhyme, rhythm & repetition; the absurd and the ambient.
She has a background in Art, Fashion Design, and Philosophy. Her general approach involves the exploration of the Self through repetitive gestures and simple geometrical shapes interacting with a personal lexicon of symbols.
She has been a part of multiple group exhibitions with Method and has shown her work in various cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Philadelphia and London. She is currently a part of Conditions Online Programme (2024-25) under the mentorship of the sculptor James Lewis.
Past Exhibitions & Fairs
2025 | Lip Service To The Transcendental (Solo at Mumbai Gallery Weekend) | Method Kala Ghoda, India
2024 | Art Mumbai x Method | Mumbai, India
2023 | Unknown Screens | Film Screening with Working Class Creatives Database x Hypha Studios | London, UK
2023 | Video Creators Room | India Art Fair Parallel | New Delhi, India
2022 | Contemporary Video Art Exhibit | Video screening with 12Gates and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival | Philadelphia, USA
2022 | Online Video Screening with New Media Art Space at Baruch College | New York, USA
2022 | Fresh Produce (Curated by Method) | India Art Fair Parallel | STIR Gallery, New Delhi, India
2021 | Plot Twist | Method Bandra, Mumbai, India
2020 | Spatial | Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India
Lip Service to the Transcendental
76”x53”
2024
Acrylics, Gesso, Carbon Paper and Oil Pastels on Canvas
A Chorister Whose C Preceded The Choir
60”x48”
2024
Acrylics, Gesso, Carbon Paper, Oil Pastel and Pencil on Canvas
Corridor of Opposites
60”x30” (Two Panels of 30”x30”) + 5”x5”
2024
Acrylics, Gesso and Oil Pastels on Canvas
Cross Over
36”x36” (Two Panels of 12”x36” + 24”x36”)
2024
Acrylics, Gesso and Oil Pastels on Canvas
Bedroom Philosophy
36”x36” (Two Panels - 24”x36” + 12”x36”)
2024
Acrylics, Gesso and Oil Pastels on Canvas
LIP SERVICE TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL BY DARSHIKA SINGH
METHOD KALA GHODA
JAN 9 - FEB 16 2025
Past Works
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Bite-Sized-Bar by Darshika singhSold out
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Edge of Light by Darshika singhSold out
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Deaf Centre by Darshika singhSold out
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