This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
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.
Neelam's exploration of interiority takes place as a mirroring—of one's circumstance and the sphere of the domestic. The material turn in this installation of works, where the surface arises out of wood and paper pulp, invites viewers to consider corrosion, decay, and disrepair. Termite damage becomes a way to think through internal conflict and infestation within the mind. This corrosion takes on lattice-like formations, an aesthetic provocation for Neelam, where the surface holds as much as it succumbs. Through this material engagement, the artist invites negative space to take root.
Residual Marks is an installation that mirrors the domestic sphere with the landscape of interiority. Working with photographs, handmade paper, paper cutouts, and papier maché, Neelam creates surfaces that arise from wood and paper pulp—inviting us to consider corrosion, decay, and disrepair not as endings, but as openings.
Termite damage becomes a way to think through internal conflict and infestation within the mind. The corrosion takes on lattice-like formations, an aesthetic provocation where the surface holds as much as it succumbs.
What stays with you is how negative space takes root here. The gaps and voids aren't absences—they're presences, quietly insisting on being seen.
Kochi Biennale 2025
Kochi Biennale 2025-26
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
