Milk Distributors
The bicycle—humble two-wheeled ‘friend of the poor’—becomes a vehicle of freedom in Abhijit Das’s large-scale paintings and sculptural work exploring mobility, care, and nourishment.
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.
There is no cost to the cycle other than two drops of Mobil on the chain and ball bearings. For Abhijit Das, this humble vehicle is nothing less than freedom itself.
Artist
Abhijit Das (Government College of Art, Chandigarh)
Medium
Acrylic on canvas, bamboo
About
In his large-scale paintings, Abhijit observes the life of the bicycle, the humble two-wheeled ‘friend of the poor’, in his own words. From rural to urban spaces, the cycle becomes a mode of upliftment, traversing every terrain.
For Abhijit, the cycle gives mobility, social and economic, and is a constant companion: his first cycle meant freedom. As he says, it costs nothing except two drops of Mobil on the chain and ball bearings. Repair shops are an ecosystem of their own.
In a thick impasto painting, he sets the milk distributor beside a mother figure: a dog with her litter. In a commissioned sculpture that goes with it, Abhijit works with the shape of the milk pail, a container of nourishment and care.