A steel sundial stands in the courtyard of Pepper House, angled at exactly 32 degrees north. That's the latitude of Palestine. Here's what's inside Pepper House at the Kochi Biennale
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.
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.
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.
Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if discontinuous in action. Ten artists from across India transform Foucault's concept into an architecture of co-existence and shared vulnerability.
The dari (rug) is where we rest after a long day. But what happens when burden and distress seep in, making comfort prickly? Jyoti's commissioned work invites us to enter a protective space between rest and play.
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