About Artist
Swapnil Vilasrao Sangole’s sculptures are rooted in a rigorous engagement with material, memory, and metaphysical inquiry. Working primarily with stone, he positions sculpture as a site where permanence and impermanence coexist, where time is both resisted and inscribed. Drawing deeply from Indian temple architecture, Sangole distils their structural intelligence, symbolism and spiritual gravity into a contemporary language.
His works reveal a careful balance between solidity and openness. Carved voids, layered planes, and architectural motifs evoke sacred spaces while remaining resolutely abstract. Each chisel mark becomes a temporal gesture, an assertion of continuity that acknowledges rupture. The stone is listened to, negotiated with, and allowed to assert its own agency within the final form.
Sangole’s sculptures function as thresholds between the material and the metaphysical, inviting tactile contemplation. They are not objects of passive viewing but embodied experiences that ask the viewer to slow down and reckon with scale, weight, and silence. In expanding his practice toward collaborative and community-based projects, Sangole further opens it up to collective memory and shared authorship. Ultimately, his work honours the sacred while confronting contemporary realities. Through restraint, precision, and conceptual clarity, Swapnil Sangole affirms sculpture’s enduring capacity to witness, question, and heal.