India In Style

INDIA IN STYLE 23: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - ALI AKBAR

Ali Akbar PN's multimedia practice examines the built environments, syncretic beliefs, social anxieties, and cultural-economic transmissions within and between coastal Indian states such as Kerala, where he grew up, and Gujarat, his current base. In collages and historical reconstructions that entangle mythology with reality, he sutures fragments from oral histories, site-specific studies, and archival and museum records to present a counter-reportage on the subjugation of marginalised communities and historical distortions.

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

INDIA IN STYLE 18: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - FAIZA HASAN

The sea, a motif in some of Hasan's earlier works- suggesting travel, togetherness, and vulnerability- returns in Kal (2025), which registers passages of time. Six small self-portraits that Hasan made in charcoal each year since 2020 resist the rigid measurements of passport-size photographs that fix identity, and chronicle the subjective physical and emotive transformations of the self over time. These temporal revisitations and back-and-forths continue in a site-specific floor drawing where Hasan retrieves the fleeting impressions on the porous substrate of memory, as reminiscences wash ashore and are reconstituted when remembered. Hasan renders a wave in thin metal leaves as it touches and retreats from the shore, and emerges from a corner onto the weathered wooden floor of a room overlooking the sea. Encompassing visually frozen rhythms, the work is animated by the subtle interplay of light reflected off the frothy surface, corresponding with the viewers' movements where the body, space, and image merge. Moreover, the proximal view of churnings enabled at the image's edge calls to the bustling activities and exchanges at the sea beyond the room. Between these precepts, Kal invites onlookers to reflect on their associations with water bodies and the coast. (Stuti Bhavsar)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

INDIA IN STYLE 15: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - SHEBA CHHACHHI & JANET PRICE

Narrated in the first person by Janet Price, the three- channel video installation, Beauty/Pain (2025) presents an embodied account, charting the debilitations and potential possibilities that emerge in states of chronic distress; a biography of pain. Against a symptomatic reading of pain as signalling bodily waywardness or error, Chhachhi and Price orient us to view chronic pain as a compass towards the trans/formations underway in our inner worlds and as an unruly friend that can both estrange us from the world or submerge us in its shared precarities. The film interjects Price's conversations with medical professionals, anchored by vivid visualisations of neural networks in her brain through medical imaging technologies, with a choral recounting of the displacement of holistic and humoral traditions, herbal life-worlds, and therapeutic methodologies rooted in principles of balance, nurture, and healing by modern medicine. (Arushi Vats)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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INDIA IN STYLE 14: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - RB SHAJITH

RB Shojith's subliminal paintings of the Malabar region's rural landscapes bear subtle yet acute specificities that transcend realism. Drawing on memories and sensory impressions of the terrain he grew up in, his practice expresses an aesthetic resistance to the homogenising forces that subsume microcultures and functions as a memorial to the landscapes erased by climate change.. (Aswathy Gopalakrishnan)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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INDIA IN STYLE 12: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - KIRTIKA KAIN

Based in Sydney, on Dharug land, artist Kirtika Kain applies experimental printmaking processes to materials that have been used for thousands of years in ritual and ceremony, such as tar, copper, gold, and cotton. Kain is attentive to the histories of labour and social relations that each of these ancient materials has witnessed and absorbed. Her process includes a dialogue between her body and the material, drawing out the distinctive qualities and limitations of each to think through complex questions of history, memory, and the inheritance of the Dalit diaspora. At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kain presents works in tar and gold leaf, as well as a series of suspended copper plates that punctuate the viewing space. (Aparna Chivukula)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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09-11: OPENING OF THE KMB 2025-26 - SHANKA TRIBE & RESMI SATEESH, NEHA NAIR, SHAHABAZ AMAN

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26 India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day, Here are the first 25 days. Let us inspire you!