Richa Arya’s Art Feels Like Sitting In A Courtyard Full Of Conversations

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Richa Arya’s Art Feels Like Sitting In A Courtyard Full Of Conversations

Sculptor Richa Arya talked to ETV Bharat about her collaborative installation with Sindhi women artisans at Jodhpur Arts Week 2025.

If you’ve ever tried sewing a button onto an old pair of jeans and found yourself giving up halfway through, you’ll appreciate what Richa Arya is attempting to do with entire histories. Except that instead of jeans, she works with scrap metal and textiles. Instead of buttons, she stitches with threads of memory, migration, and women’s work. Her practice doesn’t so much blur the line between “domestic craft” and “fine art” as gleefully tear it apart and re-stitch it into something new.

On October 2 at Jodhpur Arts Week, Arya is presenting ' Bound by Thr