At Bikaner House’s Main Gallery, Manu Singh’s exhibition बाकी / After Erasure brought together works shaped by repetition, removal and return, opening a contemplative space around what survives revision. Running from 16 to 21 April 2026, the exhibition drew from Singh’s long engagement with painting as a material process rather than a fixed image.
Singh describes her works through five forces: weight, surface, pressure, contact and resistance, insisting that these are not themes but ways of reading how a painting holds itself together. Her statement suggests a practice built on revisiting the canvas, disturbing what has settled, and allowing abrasion, removal and residue to become part of the final work.
Singh, who is based in Delhi and Bangkok, brings to the exhibition a distinctive background that bridges scholarship and studio practice. Born in Lucknow, she holds a PhD in Medieval Modern Indian History from the University of Lucknow and later trained in art at Triveni Kala Sangam under Rameshwar Broota. Her exhibition history includes participation in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, solo shows in New Delhi, and group exhibitions, camps and workshops in India and abroad.
Framed by this layered practice, After Erasure reads as an inquiry into persistence: what remains after an image is pushed, altered and pared back. The show ultimately places emphasis on the physical intelligence of painting — its pressure, its surface, and the traces left behind when intention gives way to process.
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