Dozens of cockroach-like sculptures made from dried brown leaves, with thin wire legs and antennae, scattered across a white floor.

Re-Seen Cockroach

Sharan B transforms what most ignore—dried leaves, fish bones, and wood scraps—into delicate sculptures like "Re-Seen Cockroach." This work at Students’ Biennale Kochi invites us to find beauty in overlooked wonders and reconsider the creatures we often dismiss.

Published 28 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

Arthshila Kochi

Art gallery · 1/298, Parade Road, Fort Kochi

Look closer at the ordinary.

Artist

Sharan B (Bangalore University)

Medium

Natural dried leaves, copper

About

Sharan B works with what most people ignore: dried leaves, fish bones, stones, wood scraps. A leaf that reminded him of a cockroach became a cockroach. A fish thorn became a Venus flytrap.

His sculptures invite us to find beauty where we least expect it—and to reconsider the creatures we dismiss as pests. Life, death, memory, and overlooked wonder all live in his careful constructions.

Exhibition view of 'Re-Seen Cockroach' at Arthshila Kochi.
'Re-Seen Cockroach' at Arthshila Kochi, an art gallery and cultural space on Parade Road, Fort Kochi.