The River that Remembers
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.
Published 30 December 2025
This has finished
- On view
- 12 December 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Times
- 10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday) Till March 31st, 2026
- Part of
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26
Where
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL Warehouse)
Event venue · no 6/951, Bazaar Road, Mattancherry
You’ve just missed it — take it home anyway
The 2025–26 Biennale ended on 31 March 2026. The next is expected around December 2027. We made a book of all 72 exhibits, venue by venue, with the photographs — 76 pages, 9 MB.
A river rushes through nostalgia. It holds memories of childhood, of family picnics. Its sweet water passes through orchards of our heart. Now it homes thirst and sorrow.
Artists
Shahid Wani, Mohmmed Umer Bhat, Basharat Bashir (Institute Of Music & Fine Arts, University of Kashmir)
Medium
Installation
About
The River that Remembers is a poetic installation by three Kashmiri artists—Shahid Wani, Mohmmed Umer Bhat, and Basharat Bashir. Their words flow like water itself:
“A river carried water once; it homes thirst and sorrow now. A river drifts through waterswept forests. It shouts grief and anger, for being ignored. It flows wood, stone and weight of naked mountains and lost landscape. A river finds itself in burning coal?”
Here, rivers become witnesses—to environmental destruction, to loss, to the weight of what remains. Memory moves through landscape like current through stone.