About The Public Programme

On the occasion of the exhibition opening, join us for an enigmatic sonic performance Fractured Lines, Fluid Home by multidisciplinary artist ArunDitha as she meditates on the exhibition’s themes of home, displacement and exile. Blending otherworldly synths with visceral spoken word, ArunDitha’s profound echo to Zarina's practice takes us on a resonant journey of rebirth and rediscovery. The programme will open with a short address by Sarah Burney, independent curator and Zarina’s previous studio manager.

About the Curator

Sarah Burney is an independent curator and writer based in New York. Raised in Kuwait and Pakistan, she specializes in contemporary printmaking and contemporary art from South Asia and its diasporas. Her work is grounded in close attention to artists’ materials and processes, and seeks to expand the histories, geographies, and material conversations through which contemporary art is understood.

Burney’s curatorial projects include Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower at Print Center New York (2025), Umber Majeed: Digital Handicrafts at 12Gates Arts (forthcoming, 2026), and Chitra Ganesh: Impressions of Mythic Futures at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, co-curated with Ben Levy (forthcoming, 2027). She has written for Ishara Art Foundation, ArtAsiaPacific, Sotheby’s, Kajal Magazine, Tribe Photo Magazine, Scroll Projects, Aicon Contemporary, Union Pacific Gallery, Praise Shadows Gallery, and Alexis Bittar’s Journal, among others. In 2018, Burney partnered with Zarina to co-author one of the artist’s last major publications, Directions to My House, published by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.

Burney’s writing and curatorial work are informed by a range of perspectives gained across the field, including her work in Zarina’s studio, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and the Guerrilla Girls. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Print Center New York.

About ArunDitha

ArunDitha is a poet, musician and performance-maker born in Singapore. Her work is a testing site for the melting points between poetry///sound///body. ArunDitha’s work has been published and performed widely— from Penguin Random House (India) to Guernica Mag (U.S.), from the Barcelona International Poetry Festival to Garbicz (Poland).

She has featured in different kinds of TV and toured as a solo act internationally, and started exploring Butoh and DJing in 2025. Currently she is fixated on developing her solo sound avatar Puremaisurii, performing internationally with her band Mantravine as well as returning to her theatre roots with Cake Theatre. She was a resident artist at the National Gallery Singapore, developing An Archipelagic Aeon in 2025/2026 with collaborators Helios Singh Bajwa and the Singapore Butoh Collective. As an educator she operates an entity called Pure Voice and has been working in service to collective wisdom since 2010, running workshops and programmes with institutions and individuals so they may be creatively empowered to make original work of their own.