Sculptures

Working with dried acrylic paint as a material character rather than a conventional medium, the artist builds small sculptures from fragments collected in her studio, other artists' studios, and her neighbourhood in Mumbai. She arranges these pieces, binds them with cotton thread, soaks them in water, then scrapes and polishes the dried forms — repeating the cycle until the fragments fuse into a cohesive whole. Metal is added for visual weight; gravity, moisture, and pressure do the rest.
The work carries the layered textures of her life in the city — its density, its uncontrollable growth, its crowds — alongside personal experiences of the body and domesticity. Acrylic, with its plastic flexibility and tendency to clot and adhere, becomes a stand-in for all of this: flesh, city, material, all compressed together. The sculptures sit somewhere between abstraction and realism, shaped as much by process and environment as by intention.