6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, “For the Time Being”

In their introduction to the sixth edition of India’s flagship biennial, co-curators Nikhil Chopra and the Goa-based HH Art Spaces collective (of which Chopra is a member), express their wish to “explore the idea of the unfinished spectacle,” emphasis theirs. On the evidence of the opening days they have been, if anything, a little too successful...

... Huma Mulji’s Bombay Duck, on the same floor as Hasan, featured wooden branches, draped with wilting blown-glass forms, that appear to grow from the walls and into the floor, turning the space into a mangrove swamp.