Learning to stay sane with artist Avnit Singh

Avnit Singh speaks to Tasneem Lohani about how art becomes refuge in trying times, in nurturing interior worlds and evoking acts of making kin. She reveals how art as a calling discovered her relatively late, as a result of navigating life with an altruistic curiosity and an urge to create for its own sake. Framed within matrices of chance and spontaneity, her practice has become a vehicle to excavate memories and enable gathering to communally reconcile with time, inviting novel and unmediated ways of sensing ones’ circumstances. The two artists talk of the limits of democracy within capitalism, of receiving kindness from women at critical moments, and of making art and finding joy as a resistance to a future that feels bleak.- Jones Benny Johnwriter, researcher