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Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir
Sept 30, 2026 - Jan 10, 2027

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In Reservoir, her first museum exhibition, Sagarika Sundaram turns hand-dyed wool into monumental felt sculpture. Each work is built through repeated dyeing, layering and compression, then cut open to reveal the colours and forms held inside.

At the centre is Blue Mountain (2026), almost seven metres long, with cave-like spaces you can move around and almost into. Every work in the show was made in Kutch, India, especially for this exhibition.

📍 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
🗓 Until 10 January 2027
Free entry
Read the full article on Abir Pothi.
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Sagarika Sundaram (@ohsagarika) is a New York-based artist born in India whose work expands the possibilities of sculpture through wool, dye, and felt. Her practice draws on textile traditions and labor-intensive processes, transforming raw fiber into dense forms that carry the traces of folding, pressure, and time. For Sundaram, material is never passive. It holds memory, movement, and the possibility of revealing what has been hidden within it.

For ‘Reservoir’ at Henry Moore Institute (@henrymooreinstitute), Sundaram creates her first museum exhibition through an entirely new body of work made in Kutch, India. Monumental felt sculptures unfold across the galleries, with forms that suggest caves, shells, and spirals while creating spaces visitors can move around and beneath. The exhibition marks a significant shift in her practice, using monochrome color and large-scale construction to explore how a material can become a record of its own making.

Visit ‘Reservoir’ at Henry Moore Institute in Leeds through January 10 by @ohsagarika

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Now open: Sagarika Sundaram’s 'Reservoir' continues at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, until 10 January 2027.⁠
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'Reservoir' brings together an entirely new body of work by Sundaram, made especially for the exhibition. At its centre, 'Blue Mountain' (2026) is a monumental sculpture stretching almost seven metres in length. Its expansive, undulating forms create cave-like spaces that one can move around and almost within.⁠
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Alongside it, 'Dancer' (2026), extending from floor to ceiling, spirals in a form that is at once shell-like and animated, its sweeping movement giving physical expression to the energy suggested by its title.⁠
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A further sculpture reconstructs the process of rope-making, investigating how repetition, accumulation and twisting give one of humanity’s oldest functional materials new sculptural presence. Here, rope occupies a space between line, labour, utility and sculpture, extending its long history of use into a language of form. These works, and others, mark a significant moment in Sundaram’s practice following an extended period of research into material, colour and process.⁠
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Installation views, 'Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir', the Henry Moore Institute, 2026. ⁠
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© Sagarika Sundaram. Courtesy of Alison Jacques and the Henry Moore Institute. Photography: Rob Harris. ⁠ by @ohsagarika

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“When I look at the work, I see my hand. I see my soul in a way, as if a part of myself is living in the fabric.”

Find out more about our new exhibition Reservoir in the article Sagarika Sundaram: Taking Wool Seriously - an interview with artist Sagarika Sundaram in @theartjournal_magazine

Read via the link in our bio or go straight to https://www.theartjournal.com/articles/sagarika-sundaram-taking-wool-seriously

Image: Artist Sagarika Sundaram sits with her work Blue Mountain 2026 in her exhibition Reservoir at Henry Moore Institute. Courtesy the artist and Alison Jacques, London. Photo: Rob Harris Artist Sagarika Sundaram sits in her work Blue Mountain, an immersive sculpture made of blue dyed felt by @ohsagarika

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In @thetimes today, in print and online! ✨ Pictured here with Rope (2026), currently on view at @henrymooreinstitute in Leeds

Photo: James Glossop by @ohsagarika

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My show at @henrymooreinstitute is now open!! !!
I spent the last six months in Kutch, India, developing a new body of work for this show. I can’t believe the day has finally come to share it all.

It’s been such an intense, amazing, challenging journey. So many highs and lows, impossible moments and breakthroughs. Feeling emotional thinking about everything that has happened. Unforgettable. The craziest thing I’ve done in my life. And I’m so proud of where the work landed.

Come see it in Leeds. Show closes January 10.

And a shoutout to the oak tree outside the Institute - part of Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks, which began at Documenta 7 in 1982. This one was planted here in 1988. Beuys, of course, was also a big fan of felt. 🌳

Photos: @im_minyung for Henry Moore Institute by @ohsagarika

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Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir opens today from 4pm.

Reservoir brings together an entirely new body of work by Sagarika Sundaram (born 1986 in Kolkata) and is her first solo museum exhibition. Working with wool, Sundaram uses traditional, labour-intensive processes to compress loose fibres into felt. This ancient yet everyday technology becomes a means of sculptural construction, transforming soft material into works concerned with volume, void, surface, scale and colour.

Join us for the opening celebrations this evening (Tuesday 29 September 2026), 6–8pm.

The exhibition will then be open Tuesday – Sunday 10am–5pm, until 10 January 2027, free entry.

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- Artist Sagarika Sundaram stands with her work Dancer 2026 in her exhibition Reservoir at Henry Moore Institute.
All courtesy the artist and Alison Jacques, London
Photos: Rob Harris Artist Sagarika Sundaram standing next to her large fabric spiral-shaped sculpture 'Dancer'. by @ohsagarika

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Go behind the scenes of artist Sagarika Sundaram's temporary studio in Kutch, northwest India, where she spent the majority of the year making new work for our exhibition Reservoir.

In this film Sundaram explains her working processes making and dyeing felt to create the monumental sculptures that you'll experience in the exhibition. Watch the full film via the link in our bio, or on our website.

Be the first to visit Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir by joining us at the opening celebrations tomorrow (Tuesday 29 September 2026), 6–8pm, all welcome, free entry.

The exhibition will then be open Tuesday – Sunday 10am–5pm, until 10 January 2027. by @ohsagarika

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Two more sleeps before my first museum exhibition opens at @henrymooreinstitute in Leeds! Tuesday, I can’t wait!! I’m proud of the show and excited to share the work. In the meantime I’m looking at their gorgeous website, and everything happening around the show 🧡 Link in bio https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/sagarika-sundaram-reservoir/ taken in Leeds, England, UK by @ohsagarika

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Upcoming: 'Reservoir', the first museum exhibition of works by Sagarika Sundaram, opens at the Henry Moore Institute on September 30.⁠
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Transformation lies at the heart of Sundaram’s practice. Every sculpture is built through the repeated dyeing, layering and compression of wool before being opened to uncover the colours, spaces and forms concealed within. Nothing is added; the hidden interiors have always been present, waiting to be revealed. Incision becomes an act of excavation, opening seemingly complete forms into complex spatial realms.⁠
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Through material, colour, scale and bodily encounter, Sundaram demonstrates how one of humanity’s oldest materials can become a compelling language for contemporary sculpture.⁠
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Sagarika Sundaram in her studio, Kutch, 2026. © Sagarika Sundaram, Sohail Wazir. Photography: Sohail Wazir. by @ohsagarika

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#ComingSoon Felted wool, colour and the slow accumulation of materials come together in 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙧, 𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺’s (@ohsagarika)new solo exhibition at the 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 (@henrymooreinstitute) in Leeds, opening this month.

Conceived and made specifically for the space, the exhibition brings together a new body of sculptures that continue Sundaram’s sustained investigation into the possibilities held within wool. At its centre is 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 (2026), a monumental work nearly seven metres long. Built from layers of dyed wool, compressed and worked over time, its undulating form opens into cavernous spaces, bringing sculpture and landscape into close relation.

Throughout the exhibition, Sundaram cuts into the accumulated layers to reveal colour, pattern and form embedded within the material itself. What begins as a process of layering and compression becomes an act of excavation and revealment, opening up spaces that have been buried within the work all along.

𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺: 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙧

🗓️ On view from 𝟯𝟬 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲–𝟭𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳
📍 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom. taken in Henry Moore Institute by @ohsagarika

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Artist Sagarika Sundaram has spent the last few months continuing research into felt and dyeing techniques in Kutch, north-west India, creating a new body of work for Reservoir, our new exhibition opening on 30 September 2026 at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Working with soft materials such as wool and felt, Sundaram creates monumental and immersive sculptures, rich in colour and texture.

Join us for the opening celebrations on Tuesday 29 September 2026 from 4pm to 8pm, all welcome, free entry, refreshments will be served inside and @fennells.co will be available outside. Visit the link in our bio for more information or go straight to https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/sagarika-sundaram-reservoir/

Film by @sohail_wazir_ by @ohsagarika

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