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gFest Kochi
Celebrating gender, art, and us
Dates: 17 FEBRUARY-5 MAY, 2024
Time: 10 am - 5 pm. Monday closed
Exhibition Venues: Galleries II, III and IV, Art Museum Building
Special Events Venues: Rohini Hall + History Museum
Organisers: reFrame in collaboration with Kerala Museum, Kochi
VENUE: KERALA MUSEUM, KOCHI
Getting there: Metro Pillar 349, Pathadipalam Stop, Kochi
gFest_Kochi - the festival that has brought a 'sea' of films, installations, photographs, mixed media works, interactive art, along with a series of very special events that feature walkthroughs by curators and artists, screening of documentary and experimental films, an award winning feature film, a panel discussion, inspiring talks, rich conversations, deliberations and more to Kochi has been going strong at Kerala Museum since mid February!
Showcasing a wide range of works created by artists through reFrame's genDeralities fellowships, the festival has been an enjoyable, exciting, challenging and stimulating experience for artists, art lovers, students, elders, youngsters and families. Together, visitors have discovered new and emerging artistic voices, participated in have rich discussions on, and raised their shared understanding of, gender and diversity, with creativity.
gFest Kochi Partners :
Support: Muthoot Finance. Outreach: Raising Our Voices Foundation. Additional Technical Support: Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi
EXHIBITS ON SHOW
Gallery II
Gallery III
Gallery IV
Nur and the Nightmare
Reya Ahmed
DIGITALLY ILLUSTRATED TALE
Mythological tropes tell a magical and subversive story.
A Feminist in Fragments
Urvija Priyadarshini
3 PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
Thinking about caregiving, religion, and violence.
Janeu Prompts
Jyotsna Siddarth
4 PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
Bodily responses to violence against marginalised persons.
What in a Name?
Najrin Islam
PERFORMANCE VIDEO
The lived realities and experiences on being Muslim.
Who Cares For the Caged Bird?
Chandni Ganesh
E-ZINE
The gendered nature of care for the incarcerated in the UAE.
Bereft
Natasha Chandhock
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
On leading a queer life with multiple invisible disabilities.
Reserved
The Storyboard Collective
GRAPHIC NOVEL
On the struggles of women
fishworkers of Kerala, 1970s..
Invisible Women
Reshma Khatoon
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
5 women reclaim their identity as artists.
Ghor. Ghar. Home.
Ipsita Choudhury
INTERACTIVE SITE
Lives of Bengali migrants near the Bhalswa landfill.
Pahadaan da Laan
Dhaarchidi Collective
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
The lives and labour of women of the Gaddi community.
Taaro’n ke Darmeyan
Fatima Juned
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
Gendered labour of women Muqaish artisans from Lucknow.