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Where is Jennifer? — Aditiya Singh Brings a Sharp, Restless New Energy to Method Kala Ghoda
- Style Essentials Edit Team
- 3 days ago
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At Method Kala Ghoda, Aditiya Singh’s new exhibition, Where is Jennifer?, unfolds less like a thematic show and more like a stream of thought made visible. The question in the title isn’t a mystery to solve; it’s the starting point for a body of work that moves between humour, fixation, instinct, and the quiet chaos that fuels an artist who paints because he has to.
The works drift between acrylic, ink, and watercolour, but what stands out is the way figures seem to appear and dissolve inside them. Singh leans on pareidolia — the instinct to see faces in chance marks — not as a trick but as a method. Shapes emerge from accidents, colour swells into intention, and a face he attempts to recreate slips, mutates, twists into something else entirely. Jennifer Aniston becomes a recurring presence not because he is painting her, but because he is trying — and failing — to hold onto an idea of her. The distortion becomes the point. The work sits exactly in that space where imitation unravels and something more interesting takes over.
Singh paints at night, and the canvases feel like they belong to those hours. They carry the restlessness of a mind that does not quiet easily. Colours are impulsive rather than composed; gestures land where they want to; humour pushes against melancholy. His pieces refuse tidy interpretation — they simply insist on being looked at long enough for their internal logic to surface.
There’s also a certain honesty here. Singh isn’t trying to impress with technique or sentimental narratives. He is letting the work behave the way his thoughts behave — fast, inconsistent, sharp, occasionally absurd, but always alive. Each canvas becomes a record of that instinctive movement, often humorous, sometimes unsettling, always unfiltered.
The exhibition also hints at Singh’s broader practice beyond these walls: projects in film, collaborations in music, and a history of showing at major galleries. But Where is Jennifer? stands apart because it feels so unprotected. There is no chase for refinement here. Instead, the appeal lies in the rawness — in the way he allows mistakes to lead the work rather than correct them.
Method Kala Ghoda gives this energy room to breathe. True to the gallery’s ethos, the show sits comfortably between introspection and something outward-looking — a reminder that contemporary art can be strange, funny, unresolved, and still deeply resonant.
The question Where is Jennifer? never gets answered, but perhaps that’s the point. The show is less about finding her and more about following the impulse that keeps the search going — the instinct to try again, distort again, uncover again. In the gap between intention and outcome, Singh finds a language that feels distinctly his own.
Where Is Jennifer? is on view at Method Kala Ghoda until 28 December 2025.
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