Six Continuum and Cultivate Art present Slow Time, an intimate exhibition of new ceramics by Mumbai-based artist Pooja Chamudiya, on view from July 31 to August 28, 2026, at Six Continuum in Prabhadevi. The show traces Chamudiya’s evolving relationship with clay through works shaped by handbuilding, coiling, firing and the quiet, cumulative logic of making.
Chamudiya’s practice begins with material curiosity and a willingness to work within constraint. She describes coiling as a “second skin”, and that tactile, repeated gesture sits at the centre of the exhibition’s sensibility: patient, attentive and grounded in process rather than speed. What emerges is not a set of finished forms that announce themselves loudly, but objects that seem to hold time inside them.
The title Slow Time captures the mood of the show well. Drawn from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” it suggests a meditation on permanence, beauty and the way clay records transformation. Chamudiya’s recent Anagama firings in Japan deepen that conversation, bringing kiln residues, earthy tones and the unpredictable effects of fire into the work. In her hands, ceramics become a way to think about duration: what changes, what endures, and what remains visible after heat has done its work.
Her background in wood also continues to shape the exhibition. Chamudiya first trained through wood before founding Selves, where she makes objects and furniture for interior spaces, and that lineage stays present in the precision of her approach. The transition from wood to clay introduced a new material language, but not a break in thinking; both practices are connected by attention to surface, structure and the life of objects in daily space.
The exhibition also draws on a wider visual inheritance. Chamudiya references Korean ceramics, particularly Lee Kang Hyo, and embraces imperfection as something generative rather than corrective. Her works translate landscape, memory and ordinary encounters into tactile forms, allowing observation to become material expression. That sensitivity gives the show its quiet resonance: each piece feels shaped by experience without becoming illustrative.
For viewers, the exhibition offers more than a display of ceramics; it creates a small, contemplative world in which fire, hand and memory remain legible. The appeal lies partly in Chamudiya’s restraint. Instead of forcing form into spectacle, she lets clay, residue and metallic surface do the speaking. The result is a body of work that feels both intimate and disciplined, with enough openness for each object to keep unfolding in the viewer’s mind.
Slow Time will particularly interest readers drawn to contemporary craft, ceramics, design and material-led practices, but its emotional clarity makes it accessible well beyond specialist audiences. Set within Six Continuum’s experimental third-space framework, the exhibition also feels well matched to a venue that encourages dialogue between art, design and making.
Slow Time by Pooja Chamudiya
Venue: Six Continuum, Eon One, Prabhadevi, Mumbai
Dates: July 31 to August 28, 2026
Press preview: July 31, 2026
Cover Image: Maebyeong Ceramic Vessels, 2026. Image Credit: Harish Pednekar/Pooja Chamudiya for Six Continuum
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