The Paradesi Synagogue: 450 Years of Spice, Prayer, and Hand-Painted Tiles in Mattancherry
Chinese tiles, Ethiopian rugs, a Malayalam clock tower. What if I told you that Kochi's oldest synagogue is a world in one room?
Anurag Singraur transforms discarded printers into "rod-bots" in "Who is the Print-er?" for Students’ Biennale Kochi. This kinetic installation explores the labor of creation and the poetry of e-waste, turning mechanical movement into art.
Old printers don't die in Anurag's world—they become rod-bots.
Anurag Singraur (Ambedkar University, Delhi)
Mixed-media installation with kinetic printing devices, found materials, scroll surfaces, hand drawings, magnetic ink, video, and sound

Artshila, Near Parade Ground
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
10AM to 6PM (Monday to Sunday)
Till March 31st, 2026
This Delhi-based artist rescues discarded printing machines and transforms them into kinetic creatures that crawl across scroll surfaces, echoing centuries of written word. It's playful. It's profound. It asks us to consider who—or what—does the labour of creation.
Anurag treats scrap as methodology. His work refuses the logic of disposability, instead finding poetry in mechanical movement and magnetic ink.
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps. This year's edition brings together young artists from art schools across India—each with stories that demand to be heard.
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