Announcing Representation of Sagarika Sundaram – Alison Jacques

Sagarika Sundaram: RESERVOIR

SEPTEMBER: HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE, LEEDS

Ana Mendieta

TATE MODERN, LONDON: UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2027

Monica Sjöö

in ‘Radical Landscapes’, Tate Liverpool

Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas

Nicola L.: Exhibition talk

Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib and Oliver Lanzenberg

Sheila Hicks: New Public Commission, King’s Cross

Woven Wonders is on view at Coal Drops Yard until 16 October

Nicola L.

in ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past: Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s’, Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Sophie Barber at Independent

Spring Studios, New York

Carol Rhodes

in ‘Radical Landscapes’, Tate Liverpool

Carol Rhodes: See The World

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Nicola L.

in ‘Shell’, Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica, Los Angeles

The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

in ‘Eternally Yours: Repair, Care and Healing’, Somerset House, London

Ana Mendieta & Veronica Ryan

in ‘A Clearing in the Forest’, Tate Modern, London

Sophie Barber

in ‘Chambres d’Amis: IKEA’, Antwerp, Belgium

Sagarika Sundaram in her studio, 2023; photo: © Anita Goes

Sagarika Sundaram (b.1986, Kolkata, India; lives and works in New York, US) describes her process as one of transformation: ‘There’s an alchemy to it,’ she says of her work with felt. ‘It changes in its final form.’ This sense of transformation and ‘alchemy’ has been a central theme throughout Sundaram’s career, where she uses wool, silk, and dyes to create textile sculptures, reliefs, and installations. These works bridge the bodily and the botanical, using the materiality of wool to explore internal, external, and imagined landscapes.

After working in graphic design for a decade, Sundaram pursued an MFA at Parsons School of Design, New York, following her degree in Visual Communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Each element in her work—wool, silk, dye—is chosen for its distinct textural qualities, which contribute to the polyphonic nature of her compositions. Her use of felt, an ancient textile form originating in Central Asia, is especially important. Treated entirely by hand, the material holds deep geographic histories while its pliability enables Sundaram to explore the potential of material as a form of thought.

In her studio, Sundaram approaches wool as if sketching, layering fibres like cross-hatching to create a mesh. Her process is intuitive; the work’s anatomy reveals itself only as layers ofunruly colour interact and evolve. Stretched and coiled, her unfolding forms explore the intersections between human and natural worlds, challenging the notion that the two can be separated. As Sundaram puts it, ‘By the time things are humming along, the ending makes itself obvious—the work is complete when I can feel it talking to me.’

Sundaram made her solo debut at Palo Gallery, New York (2023), and has participated in group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum (2024) and the Al Held Foundation & River Valley Arts Collective (2023). Her upcoming solo show will be at Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi (2025), and her work will be featured in the UBS VIP Lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach (2024).