How art is shaping spaces & structures: Sagarika Sundaram’s Sculptural Journey
Vaishali Dar, Financial Express Leisure
March 2025
‘New York-based Indian artist Sagarika Sundaram uses hand-dyed wool, silk, bamboo silk, and wires to describe freedom in a new way. Wall mounted or dangling from the roof, the sculptures are not just dramatic pieces of art but are also a riot of colours, engaging viewers in a web of thoughts.
“It’s a labour-intensive process,” describes Sundaram, who works on rolls of raw wool fibre to transform the textile pieces into monumental sculptures. The felt used is hand-made. After laying the raw material on the ground in the form of a wooly, mesh-like membrane, she uses soap and water to transform it into a single piece of material, building the layers from the backside.’ […]