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cats of kochi

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A small tent-shaped pavilion of white poles, its roof studded with bright wool pompoms, standing on a floor covered in a patchwork of shaggy tufted circles in every colour.

Queering Spaces/Queering Gazes

Play with the dolls. Move them around. Three Kerala artists transform intimate spaces into sites of queer inquiry—fabric tents of chosen family, playgrounds beyond the binary, and self as subject.

Published 31 December 2025

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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

BMS Warehouse

Event venue · Bazaar Road, Mattancherry

Feel free to sit around. Play with the dolls. And move them around. The playground is set in a queer-normative space, where laws, mores, and norms are broken.

Artists

Niranjana Aneesh (RLV Government College of Music & Fine Arts, Kerala), Avinash C S (College of Fine Arts, Kerala), Aswanth A (RLV Government College of Music & Fine Arts, Kerala)

Medium

Mixed media installation fabric tents, painting-based photo prints, dolls, comic books, photobooks; Jute clothes, woolen thread, clay, paper-mâché, sketch books; Photographs and fabrics

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About

Queering Spaces/Queering Gazes gathers three artists who investigate identity through the everyday, transforming intimate and social spaces into sites of queer inquiry.

Niranjana Aneesh's *Tent of Belonging* is a fabric-based installation exploring queerness, kinship, and childlike gaze. Constructed from donated textiles—sarees, bedsheets—from queer individuals and allies, each tent becomes a tactile archive of memory and care, reimagining domesticity through chosen family.

Avinash C S creates *The Indoor Playground*, an installation that problematizes rigid norms. The playground consists of dolls who represent more than man or woman—they transcend to a space that defies any resemblance with the binary. Audience members who play with the dolls become performers, critiquing how society compels individuals to perform gender.

Aswanth A turns the camera inward in a photographic series, building a visual archive of gender tension, positioning the self as both subject and site of exploration.