Ratika Singh
Métamorphose
Du 17 juillet au 17 septembre 2025
Galerie Space Between - 12 place de la République, Arles
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a meditative photographic series that traces the invisible labour of healing, with nature as both guide and witness. Drawing from personal transformation, it explores internal
seasons of rupture, stillness and return- mapping the invisible terrain and intimate journey of healing through the elemental language of nature. Mist, breath, light, and colours become portals into a world where time softens, and change moves in silence.
The images are made with the artist’s breath. She marks both the present moment and her own existence by exhaling on to the lens of her camera. In the fleeting moment between the fog engulfing the scene and dissipating quietly, she records what her breath decides to reveal.
The photo series inhabits the liminal space where the self begins to dissolve, interconnect and reconfigure. The process unfolds like the rhythms of the Earth. Each image holds the weight of the present and of transition- fragments that emerge like afterimages of memory or sensation. In this threshold, the boundaries between body and landscape dissolve while the natural world becomes the force that holds, humbles and transforms.
Metamorphosis is a gesture of surrender - an opening to the unseen forces that shape us when we stop resisting change. Rooted in both personal experience and growing scientific understanding, the work affirms what research now confirms: that time spent in nature supports emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, and the restoration of both mind and body. It speaks to the possibility that healing begins not with action, but with attention.
Ratika Singh
Ratika Singh (b. 1991, India) is a visual artist working at the intersection of transformation, embodiment, and nature-based storytelling.
Her practice incorporates photography, film, and poetry to explore the transformation of the self through the lens of the natural world, to understand how place shapes emotional experience and how the Earth’s rhythms echo our own.
Drawing on years working in remote and elemental landscapes, from forests and oceans to high-altitude mountains and deserts, her work meditates on cycles of rupture and renewal, ecological intimacy, and the healing potential of nature and stillness. With a particular interest in the relationship between human and land, breath and light, her photographs dwell in the quiet space between presence and disappearance.
Singh’s work has been exhibited internationally, including the British Film Institute (UK), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), The Reach (Canada), Obscura Festival (Malaysia), IAWRT (India), and Festival OFF Arles among others. She was awarded as a laureate by Les Filles de la Photo (France).
