Known and Unknown
Soil becomes shared ground. Harshal Khatri's two-channel video installation with paintings explores the entanglement between visible and invisible forces of nature.
Published 30 December 2025
This has finished
- On view
- 12 December 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Times
- 10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday) Till March 31st, 2026
- Part of
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26
Where
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL Warehouse)
Event venue · no 6/951, Bazaar Road, Mattancherry
The soil beneath our feet connects us to everything—to celestial phenomena above and microbial life below. Harshal Khatri makes the invisible visible.
Artist
Harshal Khatri (Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, Hyderabad)
Medium
Soil on canvas, animation
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About
Known and Unknown is a two-channel video installation paired with paintings that explores the fundamental entanglement between the visible and invisible forces of nature. Soil itself acts as the shared ground, blurring boundaries between human and natural worlds.
One channel presents abstract phenomena inspired by celestial and microbial forms—making visible the subtle processes of life like breathing and decay that we take for granted. The second unfolds a surreal landscape where tangible and intangible converge.
Through shifting animated surfaces, Harshal invites contemplation on existence while subtly satirizing the absurdity of human desire measured against nature's vast, sustaining, unsettling power.