To Be Who? Eight Artists Unravel Identity

Eight artists from Shimla explore identity through video and cyanotype—asking not who we are, but how we become and unbecome through inherited stories.

To Be Who? Eight Artists Unravel Identity

What does it mean to become yourself—when the stories of who you are were written before you were born?

Artists

Amita Kumari, Garima, Jasmeen, Katiyani, Rahul, Shyamli Nandani, Sita, and Vaishali Bhandari—all from JLN Government College of Art, Shimla.

Medium

Videos & Cyanotype

Venue

Artshila, Near Parade Ground

Artshila, Parade GRound
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This beautiful Kochi Biennale Venue presented by Arthshila is part of their multi-art curations projects across India.

Address: Opposite Parade Ground, Next to entrance of Lily Street

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Timings

10AM to 6PM (Monday to Sunday)

Till March 31st, 2026

About

Eight artists from JLN Govt. College of Art, Shimla bring this impossible question to Fort Kochi through videos and cyanotypes—an old photographic process where images emerge in deep Prussian blue, as if surfacing from water or memory.

The pairing is deliberate. Video captures movement, the constant flux of becoming. Cyanotype freezes it—seeds, flowers, gestures pressed into blue like botanical specimens of identity. Together, they hold the tension between who we are and who we're becoming.

Kochi Biennale 2025

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