The Paradesi Synagogue: 450 Years of Spice, Prayer, and Hand-Painted Tiles in Mattancherry
Chinese tiles, Ethiopian rugs, a Malayalam clock tower. What if I told you that Kochi's oldest synagogue is a world in one room?
A collaboration by Astha Tiwari, Subham Das, and Sagarika Sarkar exploring the intimate architecture of home. Using wood, canvas, and found objects, "Between Rooms" asks if our bodies become archives of memory. A hauntingly familiar installation from Banaras Hindu University at Kochi Biennale
What happens when a room remembers?
Astha Tiwari, Subham Das, Sagarika Sarkar (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)

Wood, readymade objects, canvas, paper, sculptures
Artshila, Near Parade Ground
This beautiful Kochi Biennale Venue presented by Arthshila is part of their multi-art curations projects across India.
Address: Opposite Parade Ground, Next to entrance of Lily Street
10AM to 6PM (Monday to Sunday)
Till March 31st, 2026
This trio from Banaras Hindu University invites you into the intimate architecture of home. The soft exhaustion of an unmade bed. Curtains drawn against the afternoon. Clothes that seem to wait for someone who has left.
Between Rooms asks: if we cannot hold every memory, does our body become the archive instead? Through wood, canvas, paper, and found objects, these artists construct spaces that feel both familiar and ghostly—like walking into your childhood home after years away.
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps. This year's edition brings together young artists from art schools across India—each with stories that demand to be heard.
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