Fragments Of Becoming
Indigo sits at the center of Hansika Sharma’s practice—an all-encompassing colour that feels like velvet and carries the sound of ocean waves. For her, it is both material and metaphor, a colour that shelters and transforms. This exhibition unfolds as a womb-like expanse, tracing Hansika’s movement through turbulence, self-doubt, and ultimately, renewal.
Once as valuable as gold, indigo has always demanded patience and care. Its luster only reveals itself through slow processing, through warmth and attention. Hansika sees in this an echo of her own journey—enduring trials, surrendering to time, and re-emerging with new strength. For her, indigo is not simply pigment but a vessel: a space where melancholy softens into reflection, and vulnerability grows into resilience.
Her textiles shimmer with cotton and zari threads. The act of embroidery, for Hansika, is both labor and release—meticulous, ritualistic, yet deeply fluid. Each surface carries the tension between control and surrender, fragility and endurance. In the dimness of the exhibition space, indigo radiates quietly. Metallic threads catch the light like constellations, guiding us through the layered pathways of the artist’s process.
The exhibition closes with a space of touch and encounter, where fragments of Hansika’s earlier works are offered openly. Here, the private becomes shared: a reminder that making, like healing, is never solitary. It is always an invitation—to dwell, to feel, and to return renewed.