Follow The Crowd
Driftwood and palm leaf figures at windows, facing the sea—Raj Mahanand explores how identity is never fixed, always shifting between crowds, expectations, and desires.
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
- Performer
- Raj Mahanand
- Part of
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26
Where
BMS Warehouse
Event venue · 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.
Through fragile materials and human forms, the project highlights how identity is never fixed—it is always shifting, always transforming.
Artists
Raj Mahanand (Indira Kala Sangeet Vishvidhyalya, Chhattisgarh)
Medium
Drift woods, palm leaves and found objects
About
Follow The Crowd explores identity, impermanence, and the repeating loops of society. Raj Mahanand creates many human figures from driftwood and palm leaves, showing the fragility of life in constant change.
Some figures stand at a window and reflect. The rods represent boundaries and restrictions created by society—limits that stop people from fully understanding themselves. The sea represents freedom, yet even there, true happiness is uncertain. Even when people step away from society, the search for identity continues.
Together, the figures express the struggle of moving between crowds, expectations, and personal desires. The chaos of daily life. The constant effort to understand who we really are.
