Dar – Dara – Dariya
The dari (rug) is where we rest after a long day. But what happens when burden and distress seep in, making comfort prickly? Jyoti’s commissioned work invites us to enter a protective space between rest and play.
Published 30 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
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL Warehouse)
Event venue · no 6/951, Bazaar Road, Mattancherry
Free
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.
The dari (rug) is where we rest after a long day. But what happens when burden and distress seep in? Jyoti transforms the humble rug into a passageway between work and rest.
Artists
Jyoti (Government College of Art, Chandigarh)
Medium
Iron mesh, cow dung, mixed materials, burrs
About
Dar – Dara – Dariya explores the dari as metaphor. Standard in dimensions, the rug typically signals rest and space-making. But what when anguish enters the home? Comfort becomes prickly, unsavoury.
Jyoti blurs the assumed clarity between work and rest, engaging with spheres of discontent—the demands of every day that never quite resolve. In this commissioned work for the Students’ Biennale, she invites viewers to enter the dari as passageway.
Iron mesh, cow dung, burrs: materials that speak of both earth and discomfort. A protective space sits somewhere between rest and play—or perhaps neither entirely.
