Queering Spaces/Queering Gazes

Feel free to sit around. Play with the dolls. And move them around. The playground is set in a queer-normative space, where laws, mores, and norms are broken.

Artists

Niranjana Aneesh (RLV Government College of Music & Fine Arts, Kerala), Avinash C S (College of Fine Arts, Kerala), Aswanth A (RLV Government College of Music & Fine Arts, Kerala)

Medium

Mixed media installation fabric tents, painting-based photo prints, dolls, comic books, photobooks; Jute clothes, woolen thread, clay, paper-mâché, sketch books; Photographs and fabrics

Venue

BMS Warehouse, Opposite Holy Cross Church Mattancherry (Kuriachante Nada)

Timings

10AM to 6PM (Monday to Sunday)

Till March 31st, 2026

About

Queering Spaces/Queering Gazes gathers three artists who investigate identity through the everyday, transforming intimate and social spaces into sites of queer inquiry.

Niranjana Aneesh's *Tent of Belonging* is a fabric-based installation exploring queerness, kinship, and childlike gaze. Constructed from donated textiles—sarees, bedsheets—from queer individuals and allies, each tent becomes a tactile archive of memory and care, reimagining domesticity through chosen family.

Avinash C S creates *The Indoor Playground*, an installation that problematizes rigid norms. The playground consists of dolls who represent more than man or woman—they transcend to a space that defies any resemblance with the binary. Audience members who play with the dolls become performers, critiquing how society compels individuals to perform gender.

Aswanth A turns the camera inward in a photographic series, building a visual archive of gender tension, positioning the self as both subject and site of exploration.

Kochi Biennale 2025