3-A Gallery, CICA Museum
June 18 – 22, 2025
2025.6.18 – 22
Potions of AI Feminity
This project is an exploration of the socio-techno constructs of gender and sexuality through a decolonial feminist lens, examining how digital ecologies mediate the production, performance, and distribution of identity. Rooted in glitch feminism and postcolonial theory, the work interrogates the intersection of traditional cultural aesthetics and the hyper-mediated realities of online spaces. At its centre is an AI-generated woman—crafted as a digital persona from the Global South, specifically India—who dons a saree, a traditional Indian garment deeply embedded with layers of cultural symbolism and gendered expectation. Through video, this digital body performs the act of wearing the saree while overlaid with real, unsolicited, and often provocative or misogynistic commentary extracted from dating platforms such as Tinder and Feeld. The saree becomes both garment and glitch: a cultural artefact recontextualised within algorithmic space, complicating the dynamics of visibility, gaze, and performance. The female form—digitally embodied, wrapped, watched—navigates the interplay between cultural specificity and the disembodied gaze of global networks. The work asks: how does the saree signify across digital borders? What agency does the online performance of a racialised, feminized body retain in spaces structured by both Western and patriarchal constructs? Presented within an intimate, almost confining spatial installation—a tanklike structure evoking isolation chambers—the viewer is invited into a physical embodiment of digital voyeurism. This environment reflects the tension between private performance and public consumption, encouraging a critical reflection on the conditions under which digital femininity is constructed and consumed. This work extends from prior research conducted during a Blockchain residency, where I began exploring the potential of Web3 as a more autonomous and equitable space for women and non-binary bodies. The NFT experiments sparked questions about authorship, ownership, and safety in digital creative practices—questions that now evolve here into a broader exploration of techno-feminist resistance, glitch aesthetics, and cultural embodiment. Though still in development, this exhibition seeks to push the boundaries of digital performance and feminist critique, building a speculative framework for new forms of intersectional identity production within and against the architectures of the internet.
Apoorva Singh is a London-based artist and cultural producer specializing in fine art, printmaking, and time-based media. She holds an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of the Arts London. Her multidisciplinary practice explores technology, identity, and cultural narratives, with exhibitions at venues such as MONO (Rotterdam) and The Flying Dutchman (London). In 2024, she participated in the Crypto Residency-Blockchain Fieldwork at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, investigating the intersection of digital culture and artistic practice. She has contributed to institutions such as the Barbican Centre and Hampstead School of Art as a cultural producer, tutor, and consultant. Currently, her research focuses on equity pathways in the arts for Global Majority practitioners.
