Imagined Ecosystem: Where Decay Meets Dwelling
Two young artists reimagine home and habitat. Insects become companions. Rooms become ecosystems. A quiet meditation on where we end and the world begins.
Published 28 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
Arthshila Kochi
Art gallery · 1/298, Parade Road, Fort Kochi
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.
What if insects aren’t intruders but neighbours? What if your home is an ecosystem you’re only beginning to understand?
Artists
Jyothika Byju T M studies at College of Fine Arts Kerala. Nandana Amba is from Government College of Fine Arts.
Medium
Metal, cotton, paper pulp and pigments. Ceramic and Jar, Mixed medium
About
Imagined Ecosystem brings together two young artists asking urgent questions about how we inhabit the world—and what inhabits it alongside us.
Jyothika makes creatures from dead cellular matter, using metal, cotton, paper pulp and pigments to turn decay into new life. Her insects are shown not as pests to fear but as companions in our shared ecology.
Nandana Amba turns inward—literally. For her, home isn’t just shelter. It’s habitat. Through ceramic, jar forms, and mixed media, she builds domestic spaces as architectural maps of human interiority. Rooms become ecosystems. Walls hold desires, agonies, and quiet wisdoms.
Together, they create something neither could alone: a meditation on where we end and the living world begins.
