A new ceramic sculpture exhibition titled ‘She Who Saw the Deep’ opens at Museo Camera, Gurugram, from March 25 to 29, 2026, bringing together three artists whose practices converge around the act of looking beneath the surface of lived experience. Presented by Galerie at Museo, the show runs daily from 11 am to 7 pm and gathers works by Yogita Pendharkar, Leena Dewan and Varsha Singh, all of whom treat clay as a site of encounter with memory, emotion and the quiet transformations held in the body.
Plural Practices, Singular Depth
Conceived under the curatorial theme “plural practices, singular depth”, the exhibition foregrounds sculptural and installation-based ceramics that stay with the idea of the “deep” rather than defining it outright. Across the three practices, clay appears as weight in the hands, as resistance, and as a slowly shifting matter that registers touch and time, opening onto tenderness, rupture, resilience, inheritance and small pulses of joy. The title suggests both an ancient, mythic seer and a contemporary subject who dares to dwell in what is often left unspoken, asking viewers to attend to what lies below polished surfaces and familiar forms.
Varsha Singh: Labyrinths of Ceramic Transformation
Varsha Singh’s works mark a decisive turn from her earlier life in the hospitality business towards an intensely material, exploratory engagement with clay. Treating time, experimentation and the behaviour of the medium as co-authors, she creates tactile surfaces and layered carvings that probe transformation as a quiet, internal shift. In works such as “Labyrinths of Becoming”, “Separation — not as loss, but as becoming” and “Shukr – Gratitude made tangible”, stoneware and porcelain are folded, carved and assembled into labyrinthine structures and wall installations, suggesting journeys through loss, gratitude and re-formation.
Varsha Singh | Separation — not as loss, but as becoming | Stoneware Glaze Installation | 12/12/5 inches
Shukr — Gratitude made tangible. | Stoneware Glaze Wall Installation | 55/25/5 inches
Yogita Pendharkar: Forms of Containment
Trained as a structural engineer, Yogita Pendharkar turns to clay as her true language of form, touch and reflection, finding in it an intimate dialogue between thought, body and material. What began as a hesitant exploration has grown into a sustained practice in which pauses, hesitations and moments of persistence are built into the very grammar of the work. Wheel-thrown and glazed stoneware pieces such as “Standing Witness”, “Contained Motion” and “Three Variations of Holding” pivot around vessels and altered forms that seem to hold, release or redirect energy, positioning containment as both refuge and threshold.
Leena Dewan: Sculptures of Memory
For Leena Dewan, working with stoneware clay by hand has become a process of self-discovery, moving from “accidental potter” to committed ceramic artist. Her sculptures, often finished with iron oxide and manganese oxide washes, carry depth, memory and narrative in their surfaces, reading almost like skins or strata. Works such as “Skins of Memory”, “From Silence to Circle” and “Hold or Let Go” trace emotional states and personal histories through loops, apertures and layered contours, asking viewers to consider what the body remembers and what it chooses to release.
Together, the three artists propose clay as a medium that does not simply illustrate inner states but actively shapes and transforms them, inviting audiences into a slow, attentive mode of looking. By assembling distinct vocabularies of form—from carved labyrinths and altered vessels to hand-built skins and circles—‘She Who Saw the Deep’ offers a meditative space where inner terrains can be sensed, if not fully seen, and where the deep is acknowledged as multiple, shifting and profoundly human.
Cover image: Varsha Singh | Labyrinths of becoming | Stoneware/Porcelain | 20/15/7 inches
Leena Dewan | Skins of Memory | Stoneware clay sculpture with iron oxide and manganese oxide wash | 22/8.5/6 inches
Yogita Pendharkar | Contained motion | Wheel thrown Glazed Stoneware Clay | 6.5/ 5.5 inches dia
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
