Amba Sayal-Bennett’s practice spans drawing, projection, and sculptural installation, with a sustained focus on the ways abstraction constructs and enforces social, cultural, and spatial boundaries. She investigates how geometric and modernist forms can operate as instruments of exclusion, tracing their migration and adaptation across contexts such as architecture, urban space, and material culture. Her work often engages with the aesthetics of fascist and brutalist architecture, critically unpacking the historical and political weight embedded in formal structures.
Sayal-Bennett’s installations and projections frequently explore the tension between presence and absence, visibility and erasure, inviting viewers to consider how spaces and forms shape perception, identity, and social hierarchies. She combines rigorous conceptual inquiry with precise formal experimentation, using scale, repetition, and layered surfaces to create immersive environments where abstract geometries provoke reflection on power, otherness, and marginality.
Through her practice, Sayal-Bennett situates art as a vehicle for critical engagement, exploring the social and political dimensions of form while expanding the possibilities of abstraction in contemporary visual culture. ...
