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Two large irregular panels of thick ochre and gold textured material mounted on black gallery walls, meeting at a corner where a small video screen plays.This photograph on its own page

Known and Unknown

Soil becomes shared ground. Harshal Khatri’s two-channel video installation with paintings explores the entanglement between visible and invisible forces of nature.

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

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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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The soil beneath our feet connects us to everything—to celestial phenomena above and microbial life below. Harshal Khatri makes the invisible visible.

Artist

Harshal Khatri (Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, Hyderabad)

Medium

Soil on canvas, animation

Two large, irregularly shaped wooden panels hang on a black wall in a corner, each set against a white, torn-paper-style background. The panel on the left is light brown with a textured surface and a circular feature near its center. The panel on the right is larger, with swirling patterns in gold, brown, and dark tones. Between the panels, two small screens are mounted side by side, one displaying bright green imagery and the other showing blue and white imagery. The floor below is concrete.

About

Known and Unknown is a two-channel video installation paired with paintings that explores the fundamental entanglement between the visible and invisible forces of nature. Soil itself acts as the shared ground, blurring boundaries between human and natural worlds.

One channel presents abstract phenomena inspired by celestial and microbial forms—making visible the subtle processes of life like breathing and decay that we take for granted. The second unfolds a surreal landscape where tangible and intangible converge.

Through shifting animated surfaces, Harshal invites contemplation on existence while subtly satirizing the absurdity of human desire measured against nature’s vast, sustaining, unsettling power.