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A standing figure built from lashed pieces of driftwood and scrap timber, placed against a cracked white wall beside a barred window.This photograph on its own page

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

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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

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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.

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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

A tall human-shaped sculpture constructed from pieces of driftwood and bark stands in a corner beside a window with dark bars. The figure has a rough, textured surface made of layered wood fragments, with a head formed from larger pieces of wood and a body built from smaller sticks and bark sections. Its arms hang at its sides, and its lower portion extends down to the floor, which is covered with a thick layer of dry leaves. The sculpture is positioned against a plain white wall next to a window that looks out onto a space with striped fabric visible beyond the bars.

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.