Subham Sahu

My practice lives at the intersection of folk music, sculpture, and cultural memory. I grew up around Koshli and Odia folk traditions. My father is a lead vocalist and that inheritance is the heartbeat of everything I make. I work primarily in terracotta, because clay feels like the most honest materials - something ancient, close to the earth, close to the people. Through sculpture and sound objects, I research and reinterpret regional folk music traditions - their instruments, their mythologies, their making and ask what they mean now, and where they might go. Festivals like Nuakhai, Karma Puja, and Bail Jatra are entry points into the cultural ethos I'm trying to archive and reimagine. At the core, I'm building a visual language around indigenous aesthetics, one that treats folk tradition not as a relic, but as something still breathing.