If sculpture reveals through subtraction, Rahul Mishra’s couture reveals through accumulation — thread by thread. Centuries before couture, temple artisans carved devis, dancers, and celestial attendants into sandstone, granite, and basalt, their beauty held not in dress but in posture, jewellery, and gesture.

DEVI returns to that memory, using hand embroidery — zardozi, dabka, crystals, and bugle beads to create surfaces that appear carved rather than stitched. An eternal muse, once carved in stone, now travels forward in thread.