BIOGRAPHY
Benitha Perciyal's sculptural practice is deeply rooted in her Christian faith, shaping both her thematic concerns and her distinctive material choices. Her work is predominantly figurative, yet unlike much contemporary sculpture, it embraces a slow, deliberate process and rejects synthetic compound...
ARTWORKS
I Have Nothing To Add
2014
"Makko, coal, clove, cinnamon, lemongrass, cedar wood, gumguggle, myrrh & frankincense"
60 × 200 × 37 cm
In My Body And My Soul
2014
Limestone, kaddukai (myrobalam), sand, jaggery, brick, copper and wood
90.2 × 120.7 × 147.3 cm
There is no place to go
2016
Political maps, restored letter box (Size - Variable)
0Untitled
2019
Restored time piece case and golu dolls
39 × 45.5 × 23 "
Where else they could go
2015
restored vahanam, tree gum
38 × 49.5 × 36 cm
A Science of life
2022
Restored time piece case & Apothecary Vessels
20 × 17 × 12 cm
I Revive As Fresh As Ever
2014
Gourd on caliper
19 × 19 × 26 cm
I Respect You Because I Want You To Be Manipulated By Me
2019
Palm seed on holder
5.5 × 6.5 × 3 cm
I Respect You Because I Want You To Be Manipulated By Me
2019
Dry bottle gourd on caliper
12 × 38 × 56 cm
The Ordinary And The Divine
2016-2019
Fig wood, jaggery, kadukkai(myrobalam seed), sand, limestone, hydrated lime, copper, water, fire brick, red bricks, handcrafted coconut leaf sheets, jute, tea stain cotton saree & rice grain
46 × 48 × 153.5 "
Flower of Maryam
2019
Anastatica hierochuntica and wood
8.5 × 17.8 × 36.2 cm
XENOPHORA (IV)
2018-2019
Restored bookcase, Re-used Burma Teak and laser engraving
37.5 × 111 × 174 cm
Xylotheqlues II
2022
Laser engraving on reused Burma teak with rotating wheels
21 × 60.7 × 137 cm
Will you leave me here dying
2021
Handmade bookcase of banana fiber & wood impression of leaf on handmade paper, found skeleton of myna
25 × 37 × 95 "
"Why we remember... Why we forget.."
2015
found lens, photos transfer on enamel, used wood
10.7 × 21.2 × 26 cm
"There is no forgetting from lips of the people"
2015
tree resin, found object, used-wood
18 × 25.2 × 13.8 cm
"You will never understand until it happens to you"
2015
tree resin, used-wood
24 × 58.5 × 43 cm
Only the shadows know the secrets of closed houses
2015
Restored timepiece case
Blind perfume of the earth
2021
Tree gum on banana fiber and rosewood
33 × 33.5 × 12 cm
"Lost and Found"
2021
Selected images of artist's works of almost two decades on handmade bookcase
25 × 37 × 9.5 cm
I am going behind this page, but not disappearing
2019
Frankincense, Myrrh, Cinnamon, Clove, Bark powder, Lemongrass, Cider wood essential oil, Water, laser engraving on re-used Burma teak wood, restored rosewood glass box and ebony wall mount
28 × 40.5 × 52.3 cm
My Story is Often Neglected
2020
Frankincense, Myrrh, Cinnamon, Clove, Bark powder, Lemongrass, Cider wood essential oil, Water, Agate stone, re-used, Burma teak wood, restored rosewood pillar & red sanders
27.5 × 56.4 × 156.5 cm
'There is no street, no one has a door'
2021
Frankincense wood glass
30 × 91 × 25.5 cm
'How long we live? or When we will die'
2021
Frankincense wood glass
30 × 91 × 25.5 cm
EXHIBITIONS
How Long Will We Live? Or When Will We Die?
2026 • Curated by Ashvin E. Rajagopalan, Rithik Pramod & Sruthi Srinivasan
Ashvita's Flagship
Contemporary Now
2025 • Curated by Ashvin E. Rajagopalan
Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
Manifestoes in the Open Air
2024 • Curated by Ashvin E. Rajagopalan
Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
