‘Forms at sea" traces visceral forms and sections in transitioning, dissipating states of flux and movement. Drawn during the months and silences of lockdown, these explorations situate themselves against the circling fragility and fragmentation of our collective bodies within this time. 

Devika Sundar’s practice shifts across different mediums, layering elements of painting, printmaking and collage with photography, assemblage and installation. Drawing from her experiences living with fibromyalgia, her recent projects trace and negotiate belonging within a body that is often in transit or dissonance with oneself. Exploring a  conflicting tension/fascination with medicine's visualisation of the body, her works confront the clinical boundaries of diagnostic imaging, while examining the hidden microscopic obscurities and complex internal ambiguities of our interior environments. Against varying clinical frames and categorisations of the body - she maps and marks the emotional, transitional and ambivalent states these identities inhabit; tracing themes of invisibility, illness, memory and impermanence, though personal and shared human experience. 

Water filters and ripples as imagery through her work; it's in water where the body is held and carried, where it's weight lessens, loosens and lightens, where it's pain blurs and softens and where it feels physically and momentarily temporal, escaped and at home.

Devika is an Inlaks Fine Art Awardee 2020. She exhibited her work at India Art Fair (2020) and in Spiralling the Absurd (2021), a group exhibition with Anant Art Gallery at Bikaner House, Delhi. Devika exhibited her series Essentially Normal Studies in a solo show at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore (2018) ; sharing the research, process and works in a keynote presentation at MYOPAIN 2018, an international medical conference organised by the Indian MYOPAIN Society. In 2020 she shared the project as an interdisciplinary guest lecture at Ashoka University. Parallel to her practice, Devika runs Hanno Terrace Studio; a collective open studio, intended to facilitate art as a restorative,  therapeutic tool and outlet. 

Devika studied Anthropology, Art History and Visual Arts in Sarah Lawrence College, New York and graduated with a Commendation in Contemporary Art Practice from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.