A low wall of small wooden blocks built across a woven mat, some blocks fallen loose in front, with photographs and Bengali text on the wall behind.

Wor(l)d Building Exercise

Group 7+1 Collective presents "Wor(l)d Building Exercise" at Students’ Biennale Kochi 2024. This interactive installation invites visitors to build metaphorical cities with inscribed wooden blocks, highlighting workers and narratives often made invisible by progress.

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

Pick up a block. Stack it. Build a world.

Artist

Sonu P, Abhay Pratap Singh, Surojit Kar, Detsung Daimary, Samarpan Thapa, Pronay Sutradhar, Rohit Sen, Pranto K. Sarkar (Visva-Bharathi University, Rabindra Bharati University, Biswa Bangla Biswabidyalay)

Medium

Wooden blocks, video projection, prints

About

This nine-member collective transforms wooden blocks inscribed with words into an interactive meditation on landscape, power, and progress. Visitors become participants, constructing their own metaphorical cities while questioning who shapes the real ones.

The work foregrounds those often made invisible within development narratives—the workers, the displaced, the overlooked. As you arrange these blocks, you're invited to ask: Who decides what gets built? And who remains unseen?