Ginning Justice
Phule-Ambedkarite sculpture, Mumbai housing installations, Manchester cloth histories—three artists uncover Maharashtra’s intertwined histories of labour, community, and resistance.
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
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.
Guided through material engagement, their practices open new ways of reading Maharashtra’s intertwined histories of labour, community, and resistance.
Artists
Kailash Khanjode (Government College of Art, Nagpur, Maharashtra), Rohit Athavale (Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai), Sachin Banne (Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai)
Medium
Sculpture, installation, textile-based forms
About
Ginning Justice brings together three artists who uncover overlooked layers of Maharashtra’s sociocultural landscape through material-driven inquiry. Working across sculpture, installation, and textile-based forms, they transform everyday materials into portals for reimagining the region’s past and present.
Kailash Khanjode’s sculptural practice, informed by Phule-Ambedkarite thought, revisits youth-led movements such as Nanded’s Namantar Andolan (Name Change Movement), foregrounding the young figures who propelled demands for systemic change and justice.
Rohit Athavale’s site-specific installations respond to the rapidly shifting facades of Mumbai’s low-income housing complexes, revealing how plutocratic realtors, amid rising communal tensions, fracture the city’s once syncretic neighbourhoods.
Through textile assemblages, Sachin Banne traces the trajectory of Manjarpat (Manchester cloth) from its imperial roots to its status as a powerhouse export, initiated by Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, shaped by the workers who sustain it.
