‘Suddenly, it’s alive!’ Sagarika Sundaram, artist of wild, exploding textiles
Safi Bugel, The Guardian
October 2025
When I meet Sagarika Sundaram at Alison Jacques gallery in London, she is in the middle of installing her show. Squares of colourful, hand-dyed fabric lay flat across the floor like quilts. But next week, when her solo show opens, the works will look completely different: bold patterns and textures will spill out from buried layers she refers to variably as “tongues”, “pockets” and “clues”. One piece of felt, folded in the corner, will be spliced, unfurled and dangled from the ceiling like a canopy. […]