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“During the lockdown, I decided to explore the domestic space and work with a medium which is easy to deal with and has a certain degree of fluidity. As I began to work on it with small papers and watercolour, a disconnect with the world outside happened inside me. So, I created a new world […]
365 watercolour journal by Vasudevan Akkitham at Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022 Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX It’s an absolute godsend to see the photographic work of Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam’s work in Kochi Muziris Biennale in this contemporary political-social context. Shahidul Alam is a pioneering photographer in Bangladesh, and he uses the camera as a socio-political tool, not to capture images but to expose society’s bare truth. He
Touching the political soul of a country with a Camera Read More »
Rajesh Kumar Songs about love and mischief from the people of Phek district of Nagaland makes the documentary ‘Up Down and Sideways (Kho ki Pa Lu)’. The film is made by Anushka Meenakshi. Currently the film is been exhibited at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022. The documentary is about the 5000 local villagers who plant
Farmers of Nagaland singing at the Kochi Muziris Biennale Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Photography is the best tool to capture stillness and ideal to document history as an image. Documentary photography is more into history and documents contemporary life for historical reference. K R Sunil, Kochi-based documentary photographer and visual artist, exhibits his works related to Chavittu Nadakam in Sea, A Boiling Vessel, opened in
Carnivalised life and other stories of a performance Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Is the identity crisis the most following question for human beings? How many identities are we carrying at the same time? Are we always the same? Or different? Heraclitus once wrote, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man’.
Make me up or serious humour on identity Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Toxicity is a TKM Warehouse installation in Kochi Muziris Biennale, an invitation program that fetches numerous things together to an Indian audience. We must keep the show in mind as some places in India are toxic because of illegal mining and multinational companies exploiting our natural resources with the help of our
Toxic life of a city and the people Read More »
Rajesh Kumar Seher Shah from Karachi, Pakistan is dedicated to drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She has worked with drawing and printmaking exploring ideas in architecture and perspective drawing traditions, contested relationship between history, objects and time; and the relationship between poetry and abstraction. Through works on paper using drawings, etchings, photo gravures and woodcuts and
Sheher Shah’s ode to Delhi at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Kochi Muziris Biennale brings many things together. The twin harbour city, Mattancherry and Fort Kochi, had a uniqueness before the Biennale, from colonial period trade to myriad compositions of the ethnic groups, old buildings and warehouses that assembled the historical cities in the Arabian seashore. Biennale gathers specialities, including the historicity of
Auto rickshaw toured Biennale Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX We may not know anything about the dictatorship, or we know it very well; have we gone through it silently? Our understanding of General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile is insufficient to define or identify the artwork related to that subject. We all are far away from the horrors of the Pinochet
Disappearance, exile and loss of home Read More »
Krispin Joseph P.X. Indian politics went on fire in 2020-21 because of the farmer’s protests against the bill passed by the Parliament in September 2020. Farmers’ demonstrations, mainly from Punjab, raise the tagline “Dilli Chalo” to overwhelm the national capital for their rights. Continuing Indian farmers’ low income and suicides bring this strike to international
The artist follows a farmer Read More »