Our Featured Installations & Sensory Works
We transform abstract ideas into immersive, tactile worlds. This collection represents the core of our practice, where raw materials like soil, copper, and salt meet narrative design to create environments that evoke a sense of home and wonder.
We believe art should feel like coming home. This installation, titled 'Terra', uses monumental, leaf-like forms to evoke the quiet and familiar feeling of walking on fallen leaves. The scale of the sculpture envelops the viewer, creating an emotional sanctuary that speaks to the cycle of nature, where everything returns to the primordial material of soil.
This walkthrough installation explores the dialogue between tradition and industry. We meticulously hand-wove copper wires on a loom in our studio, creating a flowing, multi-dimensional sculpture. The metallic surface acts like a gleaming river, reflecting India's rich history while embracing a contemporary aesthetic.
We invite you to dive 'Into The Deep'. This immersive experience uses over forty layers of custom double-weave fabrics, light, and sound to explore the mysterious allure of the underwater world. The installation is a journey through fluidity and light, evoking the ocean's fragile beauty and vastness.
We see soil as a material of immense complexity and beauty. For this installation, we explored its versatility by creating large, embracing surfaces with varied textures. This close-up reveals the intricate, de-bossed patterns that suggest the quiet strength and nurturing character of the earth itself.
Our work often explores bold ideas through dynamic forms. This piece, part of the 'We/Us' trend, features vibrant red figures in expressive dance poses, surrounded by a cloud of butterflies. The use of folded paper and sculptural forms creates a liberated and adventurous energy, challenging traditional notions of space.
We delve into the visual culture of Indofuturism, blending familiar Indian landscapes with retro-futuristic narratives. This installation juxtaposes a hybrid futuristic portrait, presented within a traditional Indian Mahal archway, against a backdrop of AI-generated imagery. It is a dialogue between craft and technology, east and west, the old and the new.
This ethereal environment, 'Feel More', is a tranquil journey designed to awaken the senses. We layered translucent fabrics, hand-printed and embroidered, to create an abstract landscape of soft color gradients. Dynamic light shifts and breathes through the space, transforming the experience into a meditative discovery of subtle, intricate details.
For the 'Hope You're Well' theme, we created a landscape that embodies empathy and wellbeing. Using hand-crocheted forms, we built a surreal desert of soft cacti and stones. The entire environment is a tactile exploration of texture and gentle color, inviting viewers into a space of comfort and acceptance.
We interpreted the contemporary Goth subculture in our 'Gothilicious' installation. The piece uses large, woven black fabric panels adorned with stylized tattoo art to project a bold, sensual, and moody persona. It is an exploration of darker emotions and complex ideas through scarred surface textures and evocative finishes.
This installation, 'Silver Escapade', is a journey through a silver colonnade that blurs time. We mixed ornate, period-inspired forms with sparse modern columns and mirrored metallic surfaces. The reflective orbs create dream-like illusions, embedding the audience within the experience and highlighting the transitional character of the story.
About Featured
When we take on a project, we do not start with a blueprint; we start with a story. Whether it is a seven-foot sculptural installation or a complete room transformation, our process involves deep material experimentation and site-specific fabrication that typically spans four to six weeks. If you are looking to commission a piece or create a spatial experience, we begin by developing that core narrative, followed by material sampling and sketching before a single element is fabricated.
Crafting Immersive Narratives
Our studio operates at the intersection of fine art and spatial design. We are not just decorating rooms; we are building environments that elicit a physical and emotional response. By blending the organic—soil, salt, bamboo—with the industrial—copper wire, steel, and upcycled textiles—we create installations that feel both primordial and futuristic.
Our Process
Every installation is a custom endeavour. Because our work is inherently tied to the specific site and the story we want to tell, we avoid mass-produced designs. Instead, we engage in:
- Material Research: Testing the structural integrity and aesthetic potential of natural mediums like soil, salt, or fibrous paper.
- Fabrication: Creating bespoke armatures, hand-weaving textiles, and shaping organic forms in our studio space.
- Execution: Managing on-site assembly, ensuring lighting, soundscapes, and spatial flow work in perfect harmony.
Whether you need a statement sculpture for a corporate lobby in Bengaluru or a fully immersive, multi-sensory environment for a brand launch, our approach remains the same. We focus on the minutiae—the tactile quality of hand-crocheted cacti, the way light plays on metallic surfaces, and the emotional resonance of a space. Our work is a continuous exploration, and we invite you to be part of the next chapter of our story.
Wari Watai
At Wari Watai, we are a family of artists and designers obsessed with finding the stories hidden in materials. For ten years, we have poked and prodded soil, copper, and salt to build environments that feel like an emotional sanctuary. We do not just fill space; we create visual poetry.
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