Kritika Sharma

The Living Space

As an interior architect with a background in film, my practice sits at the intersection of performance, story, and sensory experience. I’m interested in how space can move beyond being a static backdrop. How it can become a living presence that feels, responds, and participates. For me, architecture is a form of storytelling, where even the stillest objects carry emotional weight.

The Living Space is a performative installation born from that question: How can space itself be experienced as a performance?

It explores a quiet, shifting narrative between two suspended windows, freed from the confines of a wall, hovering in space like actors mid-scene. The windows are still, yet their shadows move: distorted and stretched by two moving construction lights, one filtered red, one blue. As the lights shift position, they cast ephemeral hues and layered shadows that bleed into each other, merging, colliding, separating. The windows begin to feel like characters. Light becomes the narrator. Shadow becomes dialogue.

Inspired by the stained-glass windows of churches and the immersive work of Olafur Eliasson and Rem Koolhaas, this project became my research into space as choreography. Each material and movement was carefully chosen, curved paper floors, suspended elements, and changing hues, to build an emotional rhythm between stillness and motion.

The audience is not a passive observer but a co-actor, caught within the soundless conversation of the space. 

“When the space takes the stage, every object in it asks not just to be seen, but to be questioned.”

This page was last updated on June 24, 2025