Getting to Know Your Ghosts

Solo Exhibition
Nunhead Cemetery

2025

Ayesha Sureya’s first solo show - Getting To Know Your Ghosts is a meditation on merging of physical and spiritual landscapes, on quiet, on invisibles, on before the before, on bodies thumping for life, prayer portals and flying messengers between realms.
The work considers their/one's body, placed in deep time zones - like merging with other bodies like that of water, plants and air.

Objects of prayer and grief permeate the space; here re-appropriated, rooted with symbols and sequences that affirm connection beyond and between the human and more, illustrating their immanence. An accumulation of experiments, crafted manifestations and glitchy affirmations of life and resistance circle the space - a paradox of the self and collective body as a stretched out canvas ready to be created over and over again.