Ayesha Singh’s (b. 1990, India) works question dominant perspectives embedded in our understanding of history, embodied by architecture and urban planning. Her site-specific responses consider how built spaces reflect the intricate politics inherent in nation-building exercises, reveal power dynamics, respond to migration and displacement, or function as a location of identity- embodying aspiration, desire, and belief.
Through research and critical spatial interventions, Singh works within gaps in cultural histories, including those that have long excluded women. Her work emphasizes collaboration and coexistence to unpack layers of alteration and the erasure of lived history through construction, restoration, and destruction. Singh's practice contains participatory performances with poetry, kinetic sculptures, sculptural line-drawings, video, graphite drawings on paper, and public installations of scaffold and images that are created with community involvement.