Artist
London
Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences and entanglements. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. She has shown at Serpentine, Whitechapel and Mimosa House, London; TBA21, Madrid; Khoj, Delhi; Venice Biennale and Dhaka Art Summit among others. Her recent solo at The Art Institute of Chicago was an exploration of transnational nuclear culture. Her current research with her collective Hylozoic/Desires focuses on the metaphysics of salt, which began at DesertX in California last year and will continue in 2025 at Tate Britain and Somerset House in London.
Offer
I'm a poet first-- and listen to nature to learn how to be. The ocean teaches us how to use intuition as a method, the bird teaches us how to drift, the aurora teaches us how to use doubt as a valid way of knowing the world. I am also an adventurer-- having grown up in a family of expeditioners, so I bring a combination of poetry and curiosity, and the omnipresent reminder that the outer world is a portal into our inner world.
NEED
Process is the mission. The rehearsal, the ongoing minutes that make up eternity. If I state a mission, it disappears, or the horizon changes. This is both the greatest gift of having a mission, and also arriving at it. As an artist, I want to make work that inspires or catalyses great movements but stays fluid, abstract and intimate, and striking this balance is the challenge.
Call-to-Action
When bombs make the air hazy, and when the heat makes the atmosphere sticky, and when floods cause land to become liquid, can we call upon the IDEA OF TRANSLUCENCY to help us out of disaster?
