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A gallery corner painted dark grey: a fringed brown cloth strung across the wall like a sagging roof, a rough pink-and-yellow wooden chair below it, and two small paintings on the left wall.This photograph on its own page

Remains of a home

What remains when a home is taken away? Aadil Farooq Malik, who lost his house to a road expansion project, explores the shifting meanings of belonging through architectural remnants.

Published 30 December 2025

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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

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What remains when a home is taken away? And how can we claim belonging in an ever-changing world? Aadil Farooq Malik knows this question intimately.

Artist

Aadil Farooq Malik (Institute of Music & Fine Arts, University of Kashmir)

Medium

Mixed Media

A room with dark walls and a concrete floor contains several objects. On the left wall, two framed artworks hang side by side. In the center of the room, a wooden chair with a slatted back and seat stands next to a light-colored suitcase resting on the floor. A piece of fabric with fringed edges is draped across the back wall in soft folds. To the right, a tall wooden structure with vertical bars and metal supports stands on black legs.

About

Remains of a home explores the interrelations between memory, identity, and space in a context of rapid urban transformation. The work confronts tensions between growing cities, infrastructure projects, and the intimate losses experienced by individuals in the name of progress.

Drawing from his own experience of losing a home to a road expansion project, Aadil explores how objects, architectural remnants, and everyday structures hold memory. Personal rupture becomes a lens for broader questions of displacement and land rights.

What remains? What can be claimed? The answers, this work suggests, are more fragile than we imagine.