Army Of Ants
Dried leaves become cockroaches. Fish thorns transform into Venus flytraps. Sharan B works with overlooked materials to explore life, death, memory, and the beauty hidden in ordinary things.
Published 31 December 2025
This has finished
- On view
- 12 December 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Times
- 10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday) Till March 31st, 2026
- Part of
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26
Where
BMS Warehouse
Event venue · Bazaar Road, Mattancherry
You’ve just missed it — take it home anyway
The 2025–26 Biennale ended on 31 March 2026. The next is expected around December 2027. We made a book of all 72 exhibits, venue by venue, with the photographs — 76 pages, 9 MB.
A dried leaf once reminded me of a cockroach, leading me to create one from the leaf itself. Sculpture allows me to explore ideas of life, death, memory, and the beauty hidden in ordinary things.
Artists
Sharan B (Bangalore University, Bangalore)
Medium
Brass, found stone
About
A dried leaf once reminded me of a cockroach, leading me to create one from the leaf itself. Sculpture allows me to explore ideas of life, death, memory, and the beauty hidden in ordinary things.
Army Of Ants comes from Sharan B’s curiosity about nature and the small details of everyday life. He works with dried leaves, stones, wood, fish bones and other overlooked materials, and each sculpture starts from what he sees in them.
A dried leaf becomes a cockroach. Fish thorns transform into a Venus flytrap. Birds, insects, snakeskin textures—all emerge from careful attention to the discarded and the ordinary.
In brass and found stone, Sharan builds an army of ants that asks us to look closer at what we step over every day.