A Reading Path Down a Rabbit Hole: Alwar Balasubramaniam
Selected conversations, interviews and profiles with Tamilian sculptor Alwar Balasubramaniam
Profiles and interviews
- Seeing What Is Not There: A Conversation with Alwar Balasubramaniam (Sculpture Magazine, Chitra Balasubramaniam, July 15, 2019)
- Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence (TED, September 8, 2010)
- First City (Hyaline, Talwar Gallery, January 2011)
- Alwar Balasubramaniam: The reclusive superstar (Mint, Elizabeth Kuruvilla, January 17, 2015)
- Visible Invisible: Alwar Balasubramaniam (India 20, Mapin Publishing, June 17, 2013)
- Beyond the Self: Alwar Balasubramaniam (National Portrait Gallery, Christine Clark, November 6, 2011)
- Alwar Balasubramaniam marks a decade at his studio near Tirunelveli, he invited ART India into his sanctuary… (ART India Magazine, November 12, 2025)
- Artist Alwar Balasubramaniam’s practice alchemises the five elements into art (Stirworld, Sukanya Garg, March 21, 2020)
Quotes & images
“In an interview with First City, Bala is quoted as saying: ’I remember, in my first show in New York they asked, ‘where is the Indian-ness in your work?’ Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, ‘there is too much of Indian philosophy in your work.’ They’re looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I’m not about’.” (Talwar Gallery)
