Ginning Justice
Phule-Ambedkarite sculpture, Mumbai housing installations, Manchester cloth histories—three artists uncover Maharashtra's intertwined histories of labour, community, and resistance.
The 6th Edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is finally here. Hosted across several public venues on the islands, this year's programme celebrates the unique context and communities of Kochi.
Phule-Ambedkarite sculpture, Mumbai housing installations, Manchester cloth histories—three artists uncover Maharashtra's intertwined histories of labour, community, and resistance.
Pork fat melts, echoing jhum traditions. Fabric clouds release crystal bead rain—tears. Two Arunachal Pradesh artists explore how time erodes memory and meaning, how relief and pain blend.
Touch grains. Smell straw. Witness cooking. Six Odisha artists reconstruct rural hearths, asking: what seeds of culture do we carry forward? A living archive of food sovereignty and ecological wisdom.
Dried leaves become cockroaches. Fish thorns transform into Venus flytraps. Sharan B works with overlooked materials to explore life, death, memory, and the beauty hidden in ordinary things.
The Jogappas of Northwest Karnataka—a transgender community devoted to Renuka Yellama—come alive in Banashree Vagga's acrylic paintings celebrating their music, dance, and miracles.
A National Highway cuts through Tripura's agrarian landscape. Priti Das and Bipasha Debnath document the dust, demolition, and topsy-turvy lives of Jirania's residents caught in years of transformation.
A Kashmiri fish swims through myth and militarization. Salman Khursheed Lone's animation intertwines folklore, sacred ponds, concertina wires, and the endurance of living under occupation.
Driftwood and palm leaf figures at windows, facing the sea—Raj Mahanand explores how identity is never fixed, always shifting between crowds, expectations, and desires.
Between despair and renewal: a charcoal self-portrait dissolving in loneliness, landscape paintings shifting toward light. Rakesh Y.M. holds both truths—isolation and resilience.
Time leaves traces in subtle ways—aging, dissolving, eroding. Krishna Murthy P S works with seeds, spines, and soil to explore cycles of growth, dissolution, and return.
Play with the dolls. Move them around. Three Kerala artists transform intimate spaces into sites of queer inquiry—fabric tents of chosen family, playgrounds beyond the binary, and self as subject.
Vivid palette, surreal dreamscapes, queer lovers in everyday moments—Shakibul Islam etches the portrait of the queer family into contemporary Indian life's visual language.
Termite traces, sawdust figures, cow dung and plastic—four artists gather what is often discarded, assembling a slow archive of impermanence that refuses disappearance.
Five artists from Santiniketan explore how 'shift' pushes all things into existence—the human desire to shape land, the resistance faced, and the traditions born of negotiation.
Through spectral architecture of transparent layers and shifting shadows, Honey Thomas makes visible the unseen nature of domestic life—the labour, presence, and time embedded in home.
Challenging medicalized notions of queer transitioning, anu's sound installation explores transwomanhood through self-made instruments, nail-cutting, and defretted guitars.
Five parai rhythms become architectural language. Preeti Paari's thesis creates a space for Paraiyar women where caste boundaries begin to soften.
Two artists present distinct approaches to storytelling: Aswathy G S critiques domestic labour through terracotta, while Imran Ahamed paints dreamlike tableaux between memory and imagination.
Three artists from Andhra Pradesh explore what it means to belong—to pottery as inheritance, to the endangered Banjara community, to the farmer's cycle that carries dreams.
Visual storytelling outcomes from a three-day mobile phone workshop screen at ABC Art Room. Exploring observation, sound, light, and narrative—stories born from the device we carry every day.
Nights in a crumbling hostel, weak staircases, constant vigilance—Pratik Khurkutiya's sculptures and paintings trace how fear embeds itself in the body long after we've left dangerous spaces.
Soil becomes shared ground. Harshal Khatri's two-channel video installation with paintings explores the entanglement between visible and invisible forces of nature.
The red soil of Birbhum, Bankura, and Purulia tells a story of displacement. Tanmoy Dutta creates a charged memorial for the Santal Adivasi community denied agency over their native land.
The Musi River in Hyderabad, deteriorating under urbanization, becomes a dystopian focus for Dindi Praveen Sagar's paintings and sculptures interrogating capitalism and consumption.