THE MAGICAL WORLD OF TEXTILE ARTISTS
AD Architectural Digest India|July - August 2022
In search of Kala cotton, seduced by indigo dyes, or sewing away portraits to express oneself, AD spotlights three emerging, young textile artists who are united by the shared possibilities of thread.
GAUTAMI REDDY
THE MAGICAL WORLD OF TEXTILE ARTISTS

ALAIIA GUJRAL

Alaiia Gujral lives and works in every corner of her Chicago loft, often with some blues rolling in the background on her record player. Drenched in sunlight during the day and peacefully cosy at night, the apartment that she shares with her two dogs-Huxley and Brutus-is also her place of creativity and experimentation.

A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in print media, ceramics, and fibres, she is an artist who revels in interdisciplinarity. “It all started with my obsession with indigo around 2012. I wanted to cover everything in blue-be it cloth, ceramics, or canvas. And that's when my love for multimedia was really born," she explains. Since then, Gujral has designed immersive environments for music shows, including one where she hung shimmery indigo-dyed organza; stitched the fabric into a large functional bag, a piece of "wearable art" as she describes it; and dyed and moulded porcelain to look like textured fabric. "I want to mess up a hundred times, do strange things with indigo and see where it leads me!" she says in a statement that perfectly captures her way of being.

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