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
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.
Puwali means 'kid'—the start of life in its simplest form. Two NID artists highlight how every seed, every beginning, carries its own future through visual storytelling and hands-on workshops.
Two artists from India's Northeast explore gender norms and the nurturing essence of nature through wood, bamboo, and rich indigenous traditions. Nature as refuge, difference as beauty.
A river rushes through nostalgia, holding memories of childhood, family picnics, sweet water through orchards of the heart. Now it carries thirst and sorrow. Three Kashmiri artists create an elegy.
Rust stains echo fading memories. Ash and jute speak of war's violence. Two artists transform decay into temporal progression, where the familiar becomes strange.
The playground has turned into a battlefield. Five artists from Aligarh Muslim University create a poignant installation asking: did I do something wrong, Mother?
As the Lepcha language fades and the land erodes, Reppandee Lepcha weaves together paper pulp, rice paper, and hemp wool to ask: how do communities retain relevance in a shifting world?
Imagination as resistance. Vineetha W explores creative labour beyond political binaries, granting equal significance to humans, animals, and nature in intimate, egalitarian paintings.
Is Ladakh facing enlightenment's dawning or fading into endless night? Kundan Gyatso's terracotta work carries the visual language of Thangkas and the weight of melting glaciers.
In Mumbai's frantic pace, women carve brief stillnesses in local train ladies' coaches. Diya Joseph sketches these fleeting moments of rest across two cities, two rhythms.
Brick carries the weight of loss and transition. Urgain Zawa's installation from Ladakh links melting glaciers, paper-mache horns, and ancestral rituals against environmental disaster.
