Kochi Muziris Biennale - 2

 Messages from the Atlantic Passage would count as one installation which I found very thought
provoking, hard hitting, shocking.

The slave trade was brutal and inhuman.

 I think it spoke to me more because I had seen the holding cells in Zanzibar where slaves captured on mainland Africa were held to be auctioned and shipped to the Americas. Cramped, dark, dingy and suffocating. A channel in the center of the cell was their toilet, cleaned when it was high tide.

The slave trade may have come to an end but as human beings we continue to exploit the poor and vulnerable. It's human trafficking that's talked about today, no different from the slave trade. 

What a pathetic lot we are.

First post of 2019 - The Kochi Muziris Biennale -1

Hello, my year has gotten off to a good start with a visit to the Kochi Muziris Biennale.

 The work of Shambhavi - Maati Maa (Earth Mother)

The use of agricultural impliments. 

The use of light to create interesting shadows.

 Spoke to the embroiderer in me.

The Kochi Muziris Biennale

 The work of Eva Schlegel caught my eye at Aspinwall House.

 A long corridor with windows which would normally let you see ferries plying in the sea between Fort Kochi and Ernakulam now had these laser cut words cut into sheets of translucent paper and stuck on the window panes. The words were from quotes and one needed to walk back and forth along the corridor to read the entire quote.
Spent just a day at the Kochi Muziris Biennale.