Known Bodies, Unknown Futures
Water hyacinth—invasive, resilient weed—becomes the material for Likitha R Jain’s sculptures exploring material ecology and post-humanist thinking.
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
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.
An invasive weed that chokes waterways became the unexpected material for transformation. Likitha R Jain sees in water hyacinth not a problem, but a possibility.
Artists
Likitha R Jain (The Bengaluru School of Visual Arts, Bengaluru)
Medium
Water hyacinth fibers, paper mache on wall, mix media
About
Known Bodies, Unknown Futures emerges from a practice rooted in slow, layered making. Likitha works with fragments—torn newspaper images, found objects, discarded materials—as starting points for rearrangement and reimagining.
A major shift occurred when she began working with water hyacinth: invasive, fibrous, resilient. The weed aligned perfectly with her experiments in paper pulp. Now, forms emerge through improvisation and gentle movement, reflecting interests in material ecology and post-humanist thinking.
Sculpture becomes a site of responsiveness and transformation—much like the weed itself.