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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

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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

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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.

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The Storyboard Collective

GRAPHIC NOVEL
On the struggles of women
fishworkers of Kerala, 1970s.
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Invisible Women

Reshma Khatoon

MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION

5 women reclaim their identity as artists.

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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. 

MIXED MEDIA EXHIBITION

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