ANAMIKA SINGH

Anamika Singh (b. India, active New York City) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work contends with the contested histories produced by transfers and flows of power and violence. Singh’s first institutional solo is currently on view at the Chazen Museum of Art from April 7th to July 13th. Singh will begin her doctoral research at the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in the fall of 2025.






LANDSCAPES WITHOUT BODIES


Beirut, Lebanon
Produced with the support of Ashkal Alwan
2018




When Osama Bin Laden’s compound was demolished in 2012, A BBC article stated, “No official reason for the demolition has been given. Residents around the compound have speculated that authorities do not want it turned into a shrine.”

As sites are increasingly sanctified and weaponized through military violence, where do their replicas and speculative trace stand? As our landscapes are populated by military monuments, militarized urban infrastructure and networks of surveillance, our forms of intimacy too are being channeled through these very structures, enfolding themselves within dense entanglements of violent legacies. What grows in the voids left by methodical demolitions, site-less shrines and continually mutating and mediated memories?

In Landscapes Without Bodies an emotional echo who attempts to make sense of the multi-folding violence of military replicas and its various manifestations (both physical and virtual) speaks only the language of intimacy and loss; reimagining  memorialization and the strange interplays between intimacy and the virtual.
Past Screenings: 

2021 Diasporic Rhizome, South Asia Institute Chicago, USA
2019 Angkor Photo Festival 2019, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2019 Fracto Experimental Film Festival, ACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
2018 Ashkal Alwan HWP Open Studios, Beirut, Lebanon

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© Anamika Singh 2025