Wor(l)d Building Exercise
Group 7+1 Collective presents “Wor(l)d Building Exercise” at Students’ Biennale Kochi 2024. This interactive installation invites visitors to build metaphorical cities with inscribed wooden blocks, highlighting workers and narratives often made invisible by progress.
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
- Performer
- Group 7+1 Collective
- 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.
Pick up a block. Stack it. Build a world.
Artist
Sonu P, Abhay Pratap Singh, Surojit Kar, Detsung Daimary, Samarpan Thapa, Pronay Sutradhar, Rohit Sen, Pranto K. Sarkar (Visva-Bharathi University, Rabindra Bharati University, Biswa Bangla Biswabidyalay)
Medium
Wooden blocks, video projection, prints
About
This nine-member collective transforms wooden blocks inscribed with words into an interactive meditation on landscape, power, and progress. Visitors become participants, constructing their own metaphorical cities while questioning who shapes the real ones.
The work foregrounds those often made invisible within development narratives—the workers, the displaced, the overlooked. As you arrange these blocks, you’re invited to ask: Who decides what gets built? And who remains unseen?
