Nicola Singh, out of a set of materials within her reach (Grey #1), 2018

Nicola Singh’s new works that continue to expand upon her ideas around exhibition making through the prism of action and performance. The works, each entitled within [her] reach (2018), were created privately in a gallery prior to exhibition in a process where Singh focused on an intimate negotiation of her own body to find new forms.

In early 2018 Singh was artist in residence at Hongti Art Centre in Busan, South Korea. During her residency she explored ways of capturing touch, sensation and movement in relation to the body, in an attempt to preserve and prioritise the felt or feeling experience. She made a series of new works through rubbing, grabbing, spreading and tracing the form of her body with pigment beneath a range of materials include Koran Hanji paper and clay, all improvised processes of making contact with her body. She also shared this practice in a public workshop at the gallery.

Through these new works Singh has brought together the ideas explored during her time in Korea, introducing a range of new materials alongside the development of text works, written in parallel to the artist’s physical exploration of touch and sensation towards her own body. Singh is exploring the notion of creation through performance and action as a solo and private process. She is interested in how the positioning of the performance process as a private moment can challenge the culture of performance in a visual arts context.

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