நகவெட்டி nagavetti
Challenging medicalized notions of queer transitioning, anu's sound installation explores transwomanhood through self-made instruments, nail-cutting, and defretted guitars.
Published 31 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
Aspinwall House
Event venue · Calvetty Road, Fort Kochi
Through actions like cutting and shaping my nails and removing the frets of my guitar, I situate myself within a transwomanhood that sounds and lives in worlds otherwise unattainable.
Artists
அணு anu (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore)
Medium
Acrylic and charcoal on raw canvas, watercolor and charcoal on paper, fishing nets, found wooden boat, bicycle, fabric
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About
நகவெட்டி [nagavetti] challenges medicalized notions of queer transitioning, shifting the focus to transitions constructed through personal practices and objects.
This installation and sound-activation setup features self-made sound-making instruments that highlight a relationship to transition mediated through technological sound production. The piece unfolds in two parts: first, the installation is experienced with sound generated by moving image work alongside a generative sound program.
Second, the artist performs a 'sonic summoning,' activating sound-instrument components. Through actions like cutting nails and removing guitar frets using those same tools, anu situates herself within a transwomanhood that sounds and lives in worlds otherwise unattainable by a standard fretted guitar or a normatively nailed person.