Meghna Singh

Meghna Singh is a visual artist with a PhD in visual anthropology from the University of Cape Town, working with video installation and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction. She creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ through the tool of the imaginary. She is a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology starting September 2023 until June 2024. In 2017 Singh codirected Container: Witness the Invisibilised with documentarian Simon Wood. Positioned at the intersection of virtual reality and installation art, Container makes the historical contemporary by linking historical and modern slavery to capitalism. A visceral confrontation with dark societal truths it makes visible the invisibilised millions enabling our consumerist society. Container was the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg. Meghna is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication & Culture at Aarhus University Denmark, from 2023 to 2025. She is a National Geographic Fellow and a honorary fellow at Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. Meghna has shown work at the International Venice Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and has been awarded numerous grants by organizations such as the Wellcome Trust U.K, Oriental Foundation Lisbon, Pro-Helvetica, Henrich Boll Foundation and the British Council. Lastly, Meghna is a Fellow at the Creative Knowledge Resources (2023-2024), a platform for creative pedagogy social engagement on social engagement art in Africa and its diaspora. Her current focus is on the theme of globalization, critical mobilities, historical and contemporary migration, immersive experiences and the decolonization of the digital.

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