Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
The Anchal Post Runners ran with postal bags balanced on their heads and carried a two-foot staff with bells attached. When people heard the bells coming down the road, they made way.
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
Venue
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL) Warehouse, Mattancherry, Fort Kochi, Kerala
VKL WArehouse, MATTANCHERRY
Landmark: Opposite Canara Bank, Near Mattancherry Government Hospital
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.
Kochi Biennale 2025
Kochi Biennale 2025-26
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
