Aqueous Forms and Blurred Waters I, Watercolour, tea and pen, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, 2022
Aqeuous forms and Blurred Waters II, Watercolour, tea and pen, 55.9 x 35.6 cm, 2022
Capsules, Aqueous Bodies II, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Capsules, Aqueous Bodies III, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Capsules, Aqueous Bodies I, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered I, Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
Unbound and Untethered II, Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
Unbound and Untethered III, Mammary nets, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
Unbound and Untethered IV, Mammary nets, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
Unbound and Untethered V, Uterine Swims and Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 30.5 x 40.6 cm, 2020
Foggy brains and Marine bodies I, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies II, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies III, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies IV, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.1, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.2, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.3, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.4, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.5, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.6, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, In Transit, Watercolour, tea and pen, 29 x 167 cm, 2020
Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.3, Watercolour, tea and pen, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.2, Watercolour, tea and pen, 15.2 x 20.3 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.1, Watercolour, tea and pen, 16.5 x 25.4 cm, 2022
Nerve pools II, Watercolour and Pen, 17.8 x 17.8 cm, 2022
Nerve pools I, Watercolour and Pen, 17.8 x 17.8 cm, 2022
Aqeuous Bodiea and blurred waters 1.4, Watercolour and Pen, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, Microscopic beds and Marine Bodies 1.2, Watercolour, ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, Microscopic beds and Marine Bodies 1.1, Watercolour, ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
Microscopic beds and scapes I, Watercolour, collage and pen, 73.7 x 40.6 cm, 2022
Microscopic beds and scapes II, Watercolour, collage and pen, 73.7 x 40.6 cm, 2022
Aqeuous Forms and Blurred Waters 1.3, Watercolour and pen, 55.9 x 35.6 cm, 2022
Wading 1.1, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
Wading 1.2, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
Wading, Late nights with the thought fish, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
Dips and swells, Watercolour, collage and pen, 14 x 10.2 cm, 2021 (set of 9)
Aqeuous Forms and Blurred Waters 1.5, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 25.4 x 38.1 cm, 2022
Unbound and Untethered, Swirling, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2021
Forms in Flux and Fragmentation 2.1, Watercolour and pen, 30 x 20 cm, 2020
Adrift at Sea
Reimagining the meaning of being ‘adrift at sea,’ Devika Sundar presents the internal expanse of the human body as aqueous forms that are unbound and untethered. In doing so, she brings out the uncanny echoes between us and bodies of water, in the way that they can be imaged, heard, and understood. This mode of enquiry emerged from Devika’s experiences with undiagnosed chronic pain and the research that it led to on the differences between medical visualisations in the East and the West. Devika found holistic representations that account for the body’s ebbs and flows to provide better insight into the mysteries of its functioning in comparison with the fragmentation of the body into parts and symptoms as is standard in Western medicine. Devika’s research also reinforced the comfort that she had always experienced in the water as a place where the body felt held and where pain momentarily subsided. While the chronic nature of an illness could make an individual feel a sense of loss of control, water can teach the body to submit to uncertainty and to let go. Taking this idea further, Devika has been exploring visual resonances between human organs and marine organisms and the way that they appear to the eye as well as under the microscope. Further, Devika highlights the resemblances between the sounds of ripples and waves and animals underwater to the rhythms of the gurgling and clicking heard inside humans during auscultation and other procedures like scanning. What remains central, nevertheless, to Devika’s practice is an acknowledgment of the enigmas of the human body and bodies of water that remain ambiguous and impenetrable.
Zeenat Nagri
- DEVIKA SUNDAR
- Adrift & at Sea
- 02.12.2022 - 07.01.2023
Aqueous Forms and Blurred Waters I, Watercolour, tea and pen, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, 2022
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Aqeuous forms and Blurred Waters II, Watercolour, tea and pen, 55.9 x 35.6 cm, 2022
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Capsules, Aqueous Bodies II, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
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Capsules, Aqueous Bodies III, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
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Capsules, Aqueous Bodies I, Watercolour and pen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered I, Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
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Unbound and Untethered II, Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
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Unbound and Untethered III, Mammary nets, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
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Unbound and Untethered IV, Mammary nets, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 29.7 x 20.8 cm, 2020
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Unbound and Untethered V, Uterine Swims and Placenta Rays, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 30.5 x 40.6 cm, 2020
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies I, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies II, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies III, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies IV, Watercolour, tea, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.1, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.2, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.3, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.4, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.5, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Foggy brains and Marine bodies 2.6, Photo ink, pencil and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, In Transit, Watercolour, tea and pen, 29 x 167 cm, 2020
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Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.3, Watercolour, tea and pen, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.2, Watercolour, tea and pen, 15.2 x 20.3 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, Unthreading 1.1, Watercolour, tea and pen, 16.5 x 25.4 cm, 2022
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Nerve pools II, Watercolour and Pen, 17.8 x 17.8 cm, 2022
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Nerve pools I, Watercolour and Pen, 17.8 x 17.8 cm, 2022
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Aqeuous Bodiea and blurred waters 1.4, Watercolour and Pen, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, Microscopic beds and Marine Bodies 1.2, Watercolour, ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, Microscopic beds and Marine Bodies 1.1, Watercolour, ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2022
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Microscopic beds and scapes I, Watercolour, collage and pen, 73.7 x 40.6 cm, 2022
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Microscopic beds and scapes II, Watercolour, collage and pen, 73.7 x 40.6 cm, 2022
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Aqeuous Forms and Blurred Waters 1.3, Watercolour and pen, 55.9 x 35.6 cm, 2022
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Wading 1.1, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
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Wading 1.2, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
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Wading, Late nights with the thought fish, Monoprint, 26.7 x 21.6 cm, 2013
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Dips and swells, Watercolour, collage and pen, 14 x 10.2 cm, 2021 (set of 9)
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Aqeuous Forms and Blurred Waters 1.5, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 25.4 x 38.1 cm, 2022
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Unbound and Untethered, Swirling, Watercolour, photo ink and pen, 20.3 x 12.7 cm, 2021
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Forms in Flux and Fragmentation 2.1, Watercolour and pen, 30 x 20 cm, 2020
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