Remains of a home
What remains when a home is taken away? Aadil Farooq Malik, who lost his house to a road expansion project, explores the shifting meanings of belonging through architectural remnants.
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
What remains when a home is taken away? And how can we claim belonging in an ever-changing world? Aadil Farooq Malik knows this question intimately.
Artist
Aadil Farooq Malik (Institute of Music & Fine Arts, University of Kashmir)
Medium
Mixed Media
This photograph is missing while the site moves.
About
Remains of a home explores the interrelations between memory, identity, and space in a context of rapid urban transformation. The work confronts tensions between growing cities, infrastructure projects, and the intimate losses experienced by individuals in the name of progress.
Drawing from his own experience of losing a home to a road expansion project, Aadil explores how objects, architectural remnants, and everyday structures hold memory. Personal rupture becomes a lens for broader questions of displacement and land rights.
What remains? What can be claimed? The answers, this work suggests, are more fragile than we imagine.