Sagarika Sundaram’s nested felt works evince curiosity for hidden histories
Kate Meadows, Stir World
December 2023
Kolkata born artist Sagarika Sundaram experienced a revelation when she first learnt to create felt beads on a kitchen table in London. Rolling cylinders of wool to reveal their layered rings reminded her of a piece of jewellery she’d once seen: gold encased in rubber. “The most precious part lay inside and totally concealed to the viewer, the value of the piece lay in knowing it was there but never seeing it—unthinkable in India. It fascinated me, the tension between inside and outside, the hidden and visible,” Sundaram tells STIR. She felted a palm-sized sphere and sliced it open on the table, exposing labyrinthine layers of process and labour. […]