Artist Statement

Material, process, and post-digital practice

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Harmeet Singh’s practice foregrounds material contingency and restraint, positioning the painted surface as a temporal event rather than an image. 

Operating within a post-digital scenario for his Watercolours, the work seeks the visceral reactivity of pigment, water, and time in contrast to a culture shaped by the binary and the pre-calculated digital means. The surface is approached not as a site of representation, but as a field of chemical and temporal events—where materials behave, resist, and settle according to their own logic.

Working primarily with Watercolour and Acrylic, the process is structured around gravity and chromatic release. Pigment is allowed to move toward equilibrium, reducing authorial dominance in favour of facilitation. The post-digital hand here does not reject technology, but asserts the value of error, contingency, and the irreducible presence of the physical mark.

Silence and spatial restraint are central to the work. Forms emerge through pause as much as gesture, inviting sustained attention rather than immediate resolution. Whether through the transparency of Watercolour or the weight of palette-knife Acrylic, colour functions as an atmospheric force rather than a descriptive tool—producing a visual frequency that unfolds slowly, through duration and looking.