Saruha’s current practice is looking inwards and focusing on self. The lockdown had a deep impact on her practice. She has recently moved to London from Delhi and with this, her practice shifted to working on sketchbooks and paper. It is the process that really informs the practice.
The process metaphorically is also about these times of crisis and the idea of tabula rasa, trying to build something new over and over again. She is interested in how humans constantly try to cope and build themselves, trying to start from a clean slate every time.
This clean slate is defined by the colour yellow in her recent practice. Her recent works have evolved into a completely yellow dominated practice from a blue and purple scheme of colours.
She is interested in Marcel Proust’s idea of the Madeleine moment and connects it with Immanuel Kant’s idea of the sublime vs beauty and the need for both has a deep effect on her work. The process of understanding beauty draws upon the realisation of sublime and through this process, in her practise, she is constantly trying to decipher herself.
While working on larger formats, of monochromatic colours, expression and text, she has also been working on monoprints, watercolours, sketches, ceramics and photographs inspired by nature, the everyday life and the colour yellow.
she connects to repetition as something mundane and the sense of comfort found in it. Growing up with travelling parents, a need for daily routine became a primary need.