
Natasha Singh : A Ripple in an Ocean
October 6 - November 22, 2025 at Akar Prakar, New Delhi
In the exhibition, A Ripple in an Ocean, artist Natasha Singh explores the interrelationship between ancient aesthetics and contemporary scientific theories through traditional practices such as Kolam integrated with contemporary tools and media.
Rooted in Indian metaphysics and visualised through the tools of artificial intelligence and coding, the exhibition aims to study the interconnectedness of the self. Unfolding as three interwoven projects, Singh presents her research through a visual landscape across media, including drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and new media installations.
The exhibition begins with her inquiry into the Fractals of a Deity, inspired by the Kolam tradition of pattern making from South India. This project is not just a graphic study of patterns but a speculative enquiry. The core structure, consisting of four circles in each cardinal direction and the dot at the centre, is referred to as the ‘Kolam Deity’ by Singh. Using code and algorithm to investigate the deeper implications of self-similarity embedded in its visual language, Singh employs the theory of Fractals, a self-similar form, which replicates at every scale. In a series of etched lightboxes and pen & ink drawings, she explores the form as meditative and recursive patterns.
Grounded in the rhythm of the universe, the Moon Kinetics series is an attempt at creating the Human-Nature interface based on the studies of cyclical lunar phases. The interactive kinetic installation, Laya, envisions the phases of the moon at different stages of the lunar cycle. For Singh, Laya is more than a metaphor for the visual dance of the moons, which unfolds as a slow ritual, rooting us to the harmonies of nature. Accompanying the installation is a suite of drawings titled Syncing Patterns, expanding the themes of self-similarity and cyclical repetition. Here, Singh’s personal connection to the moon’s phases becomes a conceptual and personal anchor.
In Yogic philosophy, breath work is essential for the intentional control required to regulate the flow of energy, and Nadi is the channel through which the energy flows in our body. In the Nadi series, this becomes both the concept and the medium, rooted in the somatic intelligence of Yoga. Inspired by her practice of Yoga, Singh uses AI and body mapping cameras to freeze the movements in time and space. The result, a series of digital visualisations and data sculptures capturing the undulations and symmetry in digital forms, like in the stainless steel sculpture, Nadi Paschimottanasana.
The Moon, Mandala, and Multiplicity are the three foundational ideas recurring throughout Singh’s oeuvre. The rhythm and kinetic force are embodied in the concept of the Moon, while Mandala is a self-similar geometric structure, drawing our attention inwards, and Multiplicity is the repetitive forms emerging from the vast infinite conscious field. Together, these three bodies of work form a pattern, always returning to the idea of fluidity of form.
In this exhibition, Singh draws from Indian metaphysical frameworks not to illustrate tradition, but to imagine it within the contemporary. Her materials range from stainless steel to data to pen and pixel, but all are used with the same sensitivity to pattern, breath, and mutation.
Thus, A Ripple in an Ocean offers more than metaphor. Each work begins as a contained gesture, a ripple that unfolds into forms based on a larger dialogue on metaphysical ideas. In a time of fragmentation and haste, Singh’s work is a call to ground oneself, not through explanation, but through attunement. To engage with these works is not to decode them, but to dwell within them and perhaps to recognise, in their quiet patterns, the presence of our own.
- Siddhi Shailendra
Natasha Singh(b. 1988, Jiroft, Iran)
Natasha Singh is an interdisciplinary artist, interested in bridging the ancient practices of art in India and creative technologies. She has worked with computer vision and AI to create a Generative sculpture of Yoga. Her main objective is to investigate the patterns of rhythm and their effects on the body. Her work has been exhibited at Exhibit320 Delhi, Delhi Contemporary Art week 2023, Art Mumbai 2023, Sunaparanta Goa 2023, and Indian Art, Architecture and Design Biennale in Delhi, 2023, VHC Pune 2024, Akar Prakar Delhi 2024, and Amarapali Museum for Jaipur Art Week 4th Edition 2025. She spoke at notable platforms such as EyeMyth festival, Future conference 2024, and TEDx.
Through her work, she is visually exploring the role of repetitions in movement and the emergence of patterns, with an unfurling of an underlying structure. The works are of an Interdisciplinary nature, translating temporal qualities of elements to their spatial constructions, keeping the idea of time as a personal experience. Her work is algorithmic in its making. A merge of technology and artistic expression is at the core of her work, to analyse and exhibit rhythm in practices which are culturally driven and embed historic traditions. Implementations of her artistic expressions are generated as images, video, sculpture, sound, and kinetic art.