An Anti-Radiation Garden by Himali Singh Soin
Enjoy a moment of rest amidst the anti-radiation garden.🌹Proposing and exploring other temporalities, reflecting on the impact of nuclear and colonial violence, as well as the cycles of plant time, and healing, the garden will be open to visit throughout summer until entering the dormant season.🌾
Artist Himali Singh Soin created this therapeutic garden, proposing mending through growing plants with decontamination abilities, entangled with several such gardens planted around the world. It is part of Soin’s series Static Range (2020 – ongoing), Himali’s multi-disciplinary and multi-limbed project using a real-life spy-story in the Indian Himalayas as a canvas for speculations and reflections about nuclear culture, porosity, leakages, toxicity and love, spiritual-scientific entanglements, environmental catastrophe and post-nation states.
Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences and entanglements. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. She has shown at Serpentine, Whitechapel and Mimosa House, London; TBA21, Madrid; Khoj, Delhi; Venice Biennale and Dhaka Art Summit among others. Her recent solo at The Art Institute of Chicago was an exploration of transnational nuclear culture. Her current research with her collective Hylozoic/Desires focuses on the metaphysics of salt, which began at DesertX in California last year and will continue in 2025 at Tate Britain and Somerset House in London.
Special thanks to Randa Toko, and Chris from Spitalfields City Farm.
Image: An Anti-Radiation Garden by Himali Singh Soin, The Mosaic Rooms, 2024. Photo by Ganesha Lockhart.