The Paradesi Synagogue: 450 Years of Spice, Prayer, and Hand-Painted Tiles in Mattancherry
Chinese tiles, Ethiopian rugs, a Malayalam clock tower. What if I told you that Kochi's oldest synagogue is a world in one room?
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.
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.
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