Sagarika Sundaram: Weaves and Wows
Abhilasha Ojha, Open
January 2025
‘Towards middle of our conversation, I ask Sagarika Sundaram, a contemporary artist from New York, born in 1986, to remember one of her earliest childhood memories related to art. In the next few seconds, Sundaram remembers herself as a seven-year-old girl inside the Shri Krishna Temple in Dubai—she spent much of her childhood there—completely mesmerised watching a pujari making motifs along with creating dresses and ornaments for the idols. “For me, the pujari’s work was art, with everything so colourful, vibrant, and creative,” says Sundaram, dressed in a bright blue knitted dress, almost an ode to the colours that we see in her artworks.’ […]