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In the Industrial Arts Gallery Singh presents Museum of Chance, the original museum out of which grew other forms of her museum. The multitude of images both destablise the act of looking and create new ways of engaging with the image. The photographs take on a life of their own, compelling the viewer to recurate and reconfigure the exhibits. Singh's work has evolved to go beyond the immediacy of the image to seek out its formal as well its ontological and spiritual implications.

In the first room of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Special Exhibition Gallery she invites viewers to share her miniaturised museum space and have a conversation with her about the images. Museum of Shedding is about unloading the past and finding that still centre which comes after many years of practice. By domesticating the space with a bed she suggests that all of us can create our own museums - spaces of retreat and knowing.

In the centre room Singh explores the idea of 'Time'. In Time Measures, the bundles evoke a painterly quality as if each is a portrait of a secret life, of hidden meanings and untold stories. They gaze out at you beckoning you to imagine what might be there behind those casual folds and concealing knots. In the last room Singh pushes the idea of the Museum to its limits. The Suitcase Museum evacuates all the external elements that might impinge on bringing a collection together and ensuring it reaches the farthest possible destinations.

This exhibition is a continuation of the Museum's curatorial series, 'Engaging Traditions', which invites contemporary artists to interrogate the Museum's history and collection.