Kulpreet Singh: Indelible Black Marks

The artist’s first UK solo exhibition offers a poetic meditation on the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises. Through an installation of film and paintings, Indian artist Kulpreet Singh draws upon his life as a farmer, choreographing the ritual of stubble-burning – the practice of setting fire to straw remnants to prepare the fields for a new crop cycle. In the film, performers move through burning fields dragging massive canvases behind them. The accompanying soundscape oscillates between a sense of urgency and a call to slow down, reflecting ecological emergency. A five-panel abstract painting created with fire and stubble ash, accompanies the film. Together, the installation carries the physical and metaphorical traces of the land, recording its exploitation and foregrounding the resilience of those who tend to it. The exhibition is co-presented with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Indelible Black Marks was presented at ‘For the Time Being’, the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale from December 2025 to March 2026. This exhibition is generously supported by the TNQ Foundation.