19/02/2023 Myriads thoughtful work of arts at KMB 2023 | S.Vijayaraghavan, Visual Arts faculty – Senior School, KC High, Chennai The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), the biggest and most significant exhibition of contemporary art in India, takes place every two years in Fort Kochi, Kerala. Almost 90 artists from all over the world are featured in the curatorial exhibitions named "IN O UR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE," which are shown in Fort Kochi's historic Aspinwall House, Pepper House, and Anand Warehouse and work in a range of forms, including cinema, installation, painting, sculpture, new media, and performance art, will be on dis play by artists from Asia and throughout the world. The title IN OUR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE, which she adapted from one of her earlier works, refers to both the creative and expressive urges of humans as well as the violent want to silence and obliterate. It accurately captures the societal, economic, and environmental circumstances of the current pandemic scenario. After the pandemic situation, the exhibition was curated by Singapore-based writer and artist Shubigi Rao. It overcame numerous difficulties in the climate, hurried last-minute fundraising, uncertain financial planning, and delaying arriving artworks to produce a meaningful postponement of the fifth edition of the biennale at Fort Kochi. In our Veins flow- Biennale exhibitions convey a wide spectrum of artists' optimism in practice and collaborative works shown in the regional or local context, and they feature inquiries about the potential redemptive and revolutionary force of practice outside the market. In the aim of curation reflects to celebrate a collective hope. The myriad nuances of diverse cultural artists’ works which coherently developing the powerful visual narratives as strategy, and transformative fire of satire and humour. The curator achieved and brought others’ amplify voices in the biennale and made it collectively. The most impressive this year biennale is collective work which invited to collaborate artists, private art museums and other organization. Artist Jitish Kallat curated Tangled Hierarchy 2 at TKM Warehouse and it displayed a set of five ordinary but noteworthy used envelopes that Mahatma Gandhi addressed to Mountbatten with handwritten notes the day before the Partition declaration and Kallat’s Covering Letter, an important thoughtful work displayed by KNMA. Visitors can view the short film Oh, To Hope In A Better Future by South African artist William Kentridge in a TKM Warehouse. It displays Kentridge's ongoing fascination with life and culture in the former Soviet Union and is presented in the artist's distinctive satirical manner. It was created in response to Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, a piece of music written in anticipation of Joseph Stalin's death. There are numerous thought-provoking works displayed, but I have found the most fascinating work to be Mumbai-based artist Amol K. Patil’s mixed-media kinetic artwork titled "The Politics of Skin and Movement," which has been displayed at Aspin Wall. Hence, the artist’s grandfather was a poet and his father an avant-garde playwright. There is a direct influences from his family archives which addressed the issues of labour and casteism, the human body access and movement for his community across time. In the exhibition, the artist has used mundane ready-made objects, furniture, shelves, producing noise sound amplifier under the sand represents breath, old Hindi songs frequently looped from old transistor, moving sand in the wooden drawer, expanding the readymades and other parts of human bodies are to build the converse of freedom of marginalised communities as caste-based segregation. 19/02/2023 The other significant invited collaborations displayed at the biennale are: Asim Waqif, Improvise (2022), Bamboo, coir, pandanus leaves and panambu at Aspinwall House. BHUMI at TKM Warehouse Geographies of imagination: My Language is a Bedouin Thief at Dutch Warehouse Shadow Circus- A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance at Kashi Townhouse Toxicity at TKM Warehouse Communities of Choice (CPB) at TKM Warehouse Students Biennale at Mattancherry Arman Building Memories of Home at David Hall In the satellite exhibition: Zobop- dutch warehouse, Anatomy of a vegetable – ruminations on fragile ecosystem-Mocha art café, Signed but not burned-curated by Ina Puri-Mocha art cafe IDAM: WHERE BEING SPROUTS INTO LANGUAGE- Durbar hall Photo: Vijayaraghavan.S S.Vijayaraghavan, Visual Arts faculty – Senior School, KC High, Chennai
