In the Shadows: A Reflection, A Cycle, A Path, A Song

^{Listen to the full conversation: Audio by Joe Kinwu}

Amrit Sanghera’s In the Shadows: a reflection, a cycle, a path, a song is a psychogeography walk and talk project that took place at Frieze Sculpture 2025 on Sunday 21st September. Featuring one of the exhibiting artists, Grace Schwindt, and researcher, Nirmal Puwar (Professor at Goldsmiths University), Sanghera meditated a live conversation inspired by their overlapping practices and the surrounding landscape of the English Gardens in The Regent’s Park.  

Drawing on the concept of psychogeography, coined by French theorist Guy Debord, focuses on how a geographical location affects a person’s behaviour and emotional being. The project invited playful and embodied ways of attuning to Schwindt’s sculptural work in relation to the park, and to surface new layers of understanding about an environment and the varying contexts, histories and stories which imbue a location.  

Visitors were able to contemplate, question, attune to their senses to their surroundings and the dialogue between Schwint and Purwar.   

Sanghera was a recipient of the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship 2024 and, following the successful completion of her placement at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, she has now been appointed as an Assistant Curator. 

The Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship supports Black and global majority heritage curators through 12-month, full-time, paid placements within leading arts organizations across the UK. Launched in 2020, the fellowship reflects Frieze and Deutsche Bank's wider commitment to amplify diverse and underrepresented voices in the UK art world. 

^{Main image: Photo: Linda Nylind}