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This article dives into Aditiya Singh’s new solo exhibition 'Where Is Jennifer?' that's on view at Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, until December 28, 2025. Rooted in the idea of pareidolia — our instinct to see faces and form in visual noise — the show explores themes of distortion, misrecognition, and the instability of identity.
As one of the most complex organs on the planet, the human brain has an incredible capability of filling in the blanks. It is wired to recognise faces quickly, recognise patterns and possibly make meaning where there is none. This also leads to a psychological work we exhibit called Pareidolia, which is the instinct to read faces and figures into random visual information. It’s why we might glimpse a face in the uneven bark of a tree or see butterflies in a blot of ink. The phenomenon sits at a strange intersection of perception and imagination, where recognition is less about what exists on the surface and more about what the viewer brings to it.
The same phenomena also guides 'Where is Jennifer?', the new solo exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Aditiya Singh. Pareidolia is usually discussed in psychology, but here it becomes a way to understand how an image forms and re-forms in the mind before it ever becomes paint on paper. Aditiya uses this tendency to see meaning in noise as an entry point into a body of work that deals with distortion, misrecognition, and the instability of identity.
Across canvases composed of acrylic, ink and watercolour, he repeatedly tries to capture the luminary presence of a singular figure — a reference to Jennifer Aniston — only to produce distorted imitations, grotesque echoes, spectral doubles. The paintings contain warped outlines, exaggerated features, or faces that seem to drift in and out of focus. Singh describes the project as rooted in the absurdity that grows out of continuous failure — the kind that occurs when an image becomes more and more distorted in the endless attempts to capture it.
This failure, however is not a setback for the artist; it is almost a space of freedom. His process emerges out of solitude, during nighttime rituals in his room. The paintings are containers for the noise, restlessness, and dream logic of his psyche. Which is the reflected best through colour — sudden contrasts, impulsive washes, and tonal leaps guided by an erratic and emotional rhythm; dancing according to impulses at the moment of creation.
An alum of the Rachna Sansad Academy of Fine Arts, Aditiya Singh has had his works shown at major venues including Jehangir Art Gallery (where his first solo was inaugurated by luminaries like Amitabh Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi and Jaya Bachchan), the Prince of Wales Museum, Tao Art Gallery, and the International Art Festival Jaipur. His visual sensibility has extended beyond the wall to film and music — from contributions to feature films like On the Blue Canvas and Autohead (both screened at international festivals) to album art for Lifafa’s Superpower (2020) and collaborations with bands such as Peter Cat Recording Co.
In this exhibition, the artist focuses on the human impulse to re-animate absence. He appeals to our deeply ingrained need to crave form, asking us to find Jennifer in the space between what is painted and what we project onto it.
'Where Is Jennifer?' is on view at Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, until 28 December 2025. Follow Aditiya here.
