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Rajinder Singh

UNTITLED (prayer forms), 2019

Singh’s work explore ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape. Often focused on the power of ritual action in the construction of the social body, his practice explores the ways the human body unfolds around various topographic and symbolic borders. This work includes metres of thin, orange cloth, wrapped around a twisted piece of metal. Growing up in South Asia, this fabric was worn by monks, priests, sadhus, yogis and the various shamans and witch doctors. Amongst the Sikh, the same fabric is worn as a turban. The fabric itself comes with a gesture, a magical ritual with which it is adorned.

MediumFabric, Copper tubbing
Dimensions Unframed, 110 x 80 x 30 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Purchase, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4236
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Rajinder Singh, UNTITLED (prayer forms), 2019, Fabric, Copper tubbing, Unframed, 110 x 80 x 30 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2021

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Rajinder Singh

Rajinder Singh studied engineering in the UK and then Fine Art in Singapore. His paintings, installations, photography, video and performance works explore ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape. Often focused on the power of ritual action in the construction of the social body, his practice explores the ways the human body unfolds around various topographic and symbolic borders.

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