Sathya – Mobilier National, Paris
Dec 2025

The process of weaving involves the intersection of the vertical yarns or threads on a loom with the horizontal yarns, which are called warp and weft respectively.Shuttles are devices through which the weft yarns are inserted onto a loom in the weaving process, and in the case of hand-weaving this is often done by hand.​

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In traditional practice, the weaver inhales to draw yarn from the shuttle, rendering breath as the first animated force of production. This installation with shuttles has been re-configured site-specifically for this exhibition, and advances the artist's inquiry into lineage, embodied memory, and intergenerational knowledge, grounded in her long-term association with the community practising the kasavu form of weaving in Balarampuram, in the south-western state of Kerala in India.The original iteration assembled 96 kasavu-shuttles, each indexing a year of the artist's grandmother's life. In this structure, the shuttle operates as a mediating form between the weaver's generational breath and the artist's inherited lineage.Wrapped with thread and hair, these forms merge matrilineal memory with collective craft knowledge. Recast as a spiral, the work evokes cyclical temporality, return, and continuity.

Sathya – Mobilier National, Paris​​

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