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.
Published 28 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
Arthshila Kochi
Art gallery · 1/298, Parade Road, Fort Kochi
Free
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.
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
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.
