By Riddhi Doshi
Photography: Courtesy Kochi-Muziris Biennale & Riddhi Doshi
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The third edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by celebrated artist Sudarshan Shetty displays works of 97 artists from 30 countries, across an exhibition space of
5,00,000 sq. ft. in Kochi…
The biennale’s curatorial theme summarized as ‘Forming
in the pupil of an eye’ is taken from a story of a sage and a traveller: after a
long journey a traveller finds a sage, deep in the caves, deep in meditation.
The boy waits there for an hour until the sage assimilates the world in her eye
and then looks at the boy.
Drawing on the analogy, the biennale attempts to
gather various art practices and materials as one in the biennale space.
Here is a list of the most interesting works that embody
the brief and help viewers actualize multiple realities:
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Acclaimed
Chilean poet Raúl Zurita’s massive installation The Sea of Pain invites people to wade through knee-deep water
across the room to read his poem dedicated to Galip Kurdi, the brother of
little Syrian refugee Alan, whose body washes ashore on a beach while fleeing
Syria.
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Inside a huge
pyramid made of cow dung cakes reside the souls of 10 late poets, exiled from
their respective countries. Slovene poet Aleš Šteger urges the audience to walk
through the pitch-dark alleys inside the structure, guided by the voices
reciting these poems. After having experienced the unease, restlessness and the
feeling of being lost in the darkness, the poet urges the audience to burn the verses
in a fire at the exit, as a gesture of releasing the poets’ souls.
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Goa-based
artist Orijit Sen has created dioramas of market, highways and streets in Goa,
Punjab and Hyderabad for his work Go
Playces. The installation’s centre piece is a puzzle, which people must put
together looking at the images on the wall. It focuses on the archives,
stories, memories and folklore of the cities, which we inhabit in our minds.
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Mumbai-based
artist Rajeev Thakker’s Home presents
a series of dwellings, stacked in small compartments. These are dioramas that
peek into multiplicity of lifestyles.
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PK Sadanandan
from Kerala is creating one of the largest murals in the country – 15 metre into
3 metres. Portraying the 12 stories of religious tolerance in ancient Kerala of
Parayi Petta Panthiru Kulam, the work comments on the mindless caste
discrimination and importance of nurturing and restoring our heritage.
Where: Heritage properties,
public spaces & galleries across Fort Kochi and Ernakulam in Kerala, South
India
When: December 12,
2016–March 29, 2017
For more on the
biennale, visit www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org
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