Shrine Empire & Space Studio present
inversion, incision, immateriality
by Ayesha Singh and Abhimanyu Dalal
at India Art Fair 2022, Booth #F4Artist Ayesha Singh and architect Abhimanyu Dalal’s collaborative work creates a syntagmatic sequence of languages in an installation of kinetic lights. They have identified over a hundred languages spoken in India, which are contained in the installation of an inverted pyramid in the form of their written scripts. These include scripts that are no longer used, those that have been forgotten, and others that are widely recognized. The work generates a room of multilingual words, layering alphabet on alphabet from one or more planes of the pyramid onto the architecture that hosts the work, and formulates the potential of the formation of intentional and coincidental combinations. Arabic, Brahmi, Devanagari, Bodo, Khasi, English and many other scripts refract and generate new encounters of the spoken and the written.
Swirling sometimes gibberish, sometimes sensibilities, meanings and codes about the world around us. It begins to question, how does one work with the spoken when it has no written?
