The River that Remembers
A river rushes through nostalgia, holding memories of childhood, family picnics, sweet water through orchards of the heart. Now it carries thirst and sorrow. Three Kashmiri artists create an elegy.
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Uncanny: The Quiet Rusty Sign
Rust stains echo fading memories. Ash and jute speak of war's violence. Two artists transform decay into temporal progression, where the familiar becomes strange.
Where Memories Are Immured
The playground has turned into a battlefield. Five artists from Aligarh Muslim University create a poignant installation asking: did I do something wrong, Mother?
Shifting Landscapes
As the Lepcha language fades and the land erodes, Reppandee Lepcha weaves together paper pulp, rice paper, and hemp wool to ask: how do communities retain relevance in a shifting world?
Labour of the Imagined
Imagination as resistance. Vineetha W explores creative labour beyond political binaries, granting equal significance to humans, animals, and nature in intimate, egalitarian paintings.
Is it Sunset in the himalayas
Is Ladakh facing enlightenment's dawning or fading into endless night? Kundan Gyatso's terracotta work carries the visual language of Thangkas and the weight of melting glaciers.
Capturing Slowness
In Mumbai's frantic pace, women carve brief stillnesses in local train ladies' coaches. Diya Joseph sketches these fleeting moments of rest across two cities, two rhythms.
Through their eyes
From Shimla—once the summer capital of British India—Vikas Kumar examines how being watched shapes who we are, and what it means to return the gaze.
Sacred Scapes
Brick carries the weight of loss and transition. Urgain Zawa's installation from Ladakh links melting glaciers, paper-mache horns, and ancestral rituals against environmental disaster.
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.
Thangka: Quiet Resistance
In a world of fast-paced urbanization, Yangchen Dolker's Thangka paintings of Dolkar and Jamyang become quiet acts of resistance—art forms that demand slowness.
Bohada
Where Mumbai meets Gujarat, Palghar's Adivasi communities face displacement. Gaurav Tumbada's 'Bohada' celebrates the Waghoba—the tiger guardian—as a figure of resilience.
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.
The People's Orchestra
From a humble handcart in Satana to processions across Maharashtra—Rutuja Sonawane traces her father's 50-year journey with 'Swar Samrat', a brass band rooted in Ambedkarite ideals.
Residual Marks
Termite damage becomes a way to think through internal conflict. Neelam Saini transforms wood and paper pulp into lattice-like forms where surfaces hold as much as they succumb.
Thinking Threads
Working with discarded clothing, Kerala-based artist Harsha P S cuts, sews, and repurposes textiles into forms of protest. See her work at Kochi Biennale, Kerala
What absence carries
Three artists from NID Ahmedabad and MSU Baroda trace the quiet terrain where memory, grief, and body entwine through soft sculptures, drawings, and video.
To Be Who? Eight Artists Unravel Identity
Eight artists from Shimla explore identity through video and cyanotype—asking not who we are, but how we become and unbecome through inherited stories.
The Conference of Anti-Apocryphal Beings
Twelve Kashmir students summon folklore figures that refuse erasure—winter demons, forest spirits, and the Braid-Chopper—in a sculptural "conference" that's forensic, political, and unforgettable.
Imagined Ecosystem: Where Decay Meets Dwelling
Two young artists reimagine home and habitat. Insects become companions. Rooms become ecosystems. A quiet meditation on where we end and the world begins.
15,000 Expressions of Fragility
15,000 terracotta pieces, each sold for one rupee. Durgesh Prajapati and 14 Kumhar artisans transform traditional pottery into powerful contemporary art.
Simulation & Abor Wars
Ejum Riba examines Indigenous erasure and the history of the Adi people in "Simulation & Abor Wars." These paintings for Students' Biennale Kochi explore the complexities of the British Raj, decolonial practice, and the personal family histories that shape our view of the past.
Wor(l)d Building Exercise
Group 7+1 Collective presents "Wor(l)d Building Exercise" at Students’ Biennale Kochi 2024. This interactive installation invites visitors to build metaphorical cities with inscribed wooden blocks, highlighting workers and narratives often made invisible by progress.
Re-Seen Cockroach
Sharan B transforms what most ignore—dried leaves, fish bones, and wood scraps—into delicate sculptures like "Re-Seen Cockroach." This work at Students’ Biennale Kochi invites us to find beauty in overlooked wonders and reconsider the creatures we often dismiss.