Haal Mukaam: Current Address, A solo by Girjesh Kumar Singh
The solo exhibition by Girjesh Kumar Singh engages with the idea that no address is ever permanent. This impermanence is embedded in his material of choice: bricks salvaged from demolished constructions, wrested from the bones of their former homes, are given new addresses within his works.
Every address is provisional, every dwelling temporary, in constant flux—like the tide of human life itself. The works rest on the idea of life as a universal journey, one in which we are always en route. The figures in Singh’s works are never idle. They clutch, lean upon, or cradle their belongings—gestures that do not only signify waiting, but a readiness, a subtle rehearsal for departure. It is this interstice that Singh calls the “layover,” a halt not in life but within it, a moment between arriving and leaving. A layover is not stillness; it is imbued with anticipation. In waiting, one becomes aware of direction, of companions yet to be encountered, of faces left behind. It is a state of perpetual becoming, a readiness for what has not yet arrived, a reckoning with the invisible itinerary of the self.
Each work is titled In Transit. There is no journey without baggage, whether literal or metaphorical. Alongside suitcases, we carry identities, histories, belief systems, and memories—layers accumulated like sediment in a riverbed.
The ideal, Singh suggests, is to travel lightly, though we know that lightness is a grace rarely achieved. Even in moments of rupture—when we are broken, displaced, cast out—the baggage endures. Memory, personality, and lived experience persist. Like fractured walls still holding the weight of the past, fragments retain meaning. The works reflect this resilience: even in displacement, something is always carried forward.