Anand Warehouse

Anand Warehouse is a colonial-era godown in Mattancherry, and one of the venues for the main exhibition of the 2025-26 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Its largest work in that edition was Parliament of Ghosts, which Ibrahim Mahama began in 2017. He covered the tall walls of one room with used brown jute sacks. The sacks were repaired by women workers from Mattancherry, and discarded chairs from public institutions were restored by local carpenters and set into a stepped seating area. The room was built as an active space for discussion and performance. The sacks were stained remnants of resource extraction from Kerala’s trade.

The warehouse also showed Kulpreet Singh’s single-channel video Indelible Black Marks, made in 2022 and extended to 2024. It follows the agrarian practice of stubble burning in Punjab. The video was shown alongside canvases that were singed, then printed and infused with soot and ash. They were records from the performance behind the film.