Chanting: Rosary
Chanting: Rosary
2017, ANIMA MUNDI International Art Festival, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice
This site-specific work features a chain of 59 enlarged red saga seeds in fibreglass, configured to echo the form and rhythm of a rosary. Winding through the palazzo’s historic rooms and courtyards, the sculpture bridges the spiritual and the secular, drawing on universal practices of devotion and meditation across cultures.
The saga seed, long central to Kumari’s practice, is a vessel of memory, love, and latent energy. By magnifying its form, the artist transforms a humble natural object into a luminous “kernel of energy,” inviting reflection on presence, longing, and connection. Simultaneously, nine additional seeds were installed in Singapore, conceptually linking the two sites across distance and time.
Chanting: Rosary embodies Kumari’s fascination with energy, ritual, and the metaphysical—celebrating a shared human impulse to seek hope, rhythm, and meaning through symbolic gestures.