Artists
Sumakshi Singh

Sumakshi Singh

Born

1980, New Delhi

Based in

New Delhi

Practice & Materials

Installations using thread, textiles, and embroidery

Key Themes

Memory, time, fragility, material vs immaterial space, perception of structure

Sumakshi Singh’s practice examines memory, time, and the shifting boundary between tangible and immaterial space. Working from a studio in New Delhi, the artist uses thread, textiles, and embroidery to create delicate, often translucent environments that evoke architectural forms without solidity. Her intricate compositions translate personal and collective histories into spatial experiences, where built structures dissolve into traces. In her work, memory is articulated as a fragile yet enduring presence, unfolding across space rather than fixed within it.

Featured work

Permanent Address, 2026

Silk, cotton, and nylon thread stretched on steel frames

This installation recreates in thread the demolished family home at 33 Link Road, New Delhi, where the artist spent formative moments of her childhood. The lace-like structures render walls, hinges, and brickwork as translucent, spectral outlines, revealing how architecture has been recreated as an act of labor and memory. Rooted in the tradition of women in the family gathering to embroider together, the work reclaims domestic labor as foundational rather than decorative. What was once solid shelter becomes a weightless apparition, inviting visitors to reflect on loss, and to question what home means when its physical form has vanished entirely.

Two elements of this project have been graciously lent by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Y.D.C.

Note from
Sumakshi Singh

“I am creating an immersive installation in which visitors will move through a labyrinth of life-sized, broken architectural fragments of a home. Crafted from delicate white thread—thinner than hair—these gossamer architectural membranes are suspended in air, reminiscent of memories drawn from the ether.

Though I have lived across states and countries, my idea of home remained tethered to 33 Link Road —a house built by my refugee grandparents in Delhi. Listed as our permanent address on official documents, it was a site of annual gatherings, stories, weddings, and sleepovers; a room at the back where my mother was born, and a room at the front where my grandfather died. 33 Link Road was considered ‘home’ not only by family, but by friends and the wider community—many of whom never officially lived there. This potent container of shared histories now stands demolished—its once-solid, sheltering surfaces dissolved into immaterial remembrance. As an homage to the afternoons spent in this home, knitting and embroidering with my grandmother, I recreated the architectural details of the house using thread.”