Amino Soup: Savia Mahajan: Sculptures and Drawings

In a new series of the artist’s signature ceramic books, titled Pietra, the artist uses fire and rocks to symbolize external pressures, looking at how things that were once stagnant are forced out of their inertia into a state of change that eventually leads to their evolution. 

The series Emergency old longing finds its roots in Mahajan’s works from 2019 such as Liminal, but this time the rust and white colours of the work speak about an urgency to move from one state to the other. The abstract, surreal, and often weird forms are indicative of being tied down, but now bursting out to become something more.

Savia Mahajan began her formal artistic training in her home city of Mumbai, at the L.S. Raheja School of Art. Savia completed her post-graduation in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha in 2022. Though she trained as a painter, since 2010, Savia’s practice began moving away from the medium of painting, towards ceramics.
These developments in Savia’s practice resulted in Liminal — her first solo exhibition at TARQ in 2017. This was followed by a landmark group exhibition—Mutable: Ceramics and Clay Art in India Since 1947, curated by Dr. Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura D.M. at the Piramal Art Foundation, Mumbai in 2019. Savia has recently been a part of several projects including India Art Fair in Delhi (2020), solo project Resurgō at TARQ’s booth, Art Basel, Hong Kong (2019); and group presentations including Osmosis, a group exhibition curated by Shaleen Wadhwana at TARQ in 2019; the second edition of The Sculpture Park, The Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, curated by Peter Nagy (2018-19) and the First Indian Ceramics Triennale, Jaipur, (2018) among others. Savia is a part of the A-Cube collaborative, that fosters ideas of blurring the lines between architecture, art and artisanship. She is also a part of the board of Karigar Shala Trust, an artisan school in Bhuj Kutch.
Savia lives and works in Mumbai.