Who am I? Where do I belong? Do I belong to a community?
Do I belong to many?

These are a few underlying questions we pose through this project. Selected via an open-call, the featured lens-based multidisciplinary works from India and Wales are a constellation of layered explorations of the notion of community.

Artists

  • Dipanwita Saha

    Trail of Blood

  • Gareth Wyn Owen

    Make Me Up

  • Huw Alden Davies

    Separation of Symmetry

  • Kashish Kochhar

    Space as a Catalyst

  • Tessa Holly

    The Red Cave

  • Palani Kumar

    Out of Breath

  • Paribartana Mohanty

    A Fate's Brief Memoir

  • Rishi Kochhar

    Akin to the Winter Sun

  • Sebastián Bustamante

    El Otoño

  • Susan Matthews

    The Red Cave

  • Tarun Bhartiya

    Niam/Faith/Hyniewtrep

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Student Projects

Students from universities across India and Wales have been working on projects inspired by Communities of Choice.

Exhibition

13 December 2022 - 10 April 2023

CPB Foundation and Ffotogallery Wales are thrilled to announce the Communities of Choice Showcase opens on 13 December at the Kochi Biennale 2022 as an invited exhibition at the TKM Warehouse.

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Kochi Biennale

Showcasing at TKM Warehouse,
KOCHI MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2022

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art held in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. It is the largest art exhibition in the country and the biggest contemporary art festival in Asia.

Highlights

  • Testimonials

    Listen to what some of our exhibition visitors have to say about Communities of Choice.

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  • Postcards Home

    As part of an interactive engagement with our audiences with this work, we ask them to write a postcard home, what home is for them.

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  • Thee Utter Postcoloniality

    One of the projects made by students as a response to Communities of Choice. This group of students focus on the Madras Players, the oldest English theatre group in Chennai.

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  • Press Coverage

    Visit our Press page to see what the likes of Wallpaper*, Times of India, Daily Art News and Abir Pothi have to say about the exhibition and biennale.

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About

Lens-based multidisciplinary works from India and Wales

This India-Wales connection was established in 2018 with the stupendous support of the British Council via the Imagining the Nation State Grant that grew into a fantastic partnership. Furthermore, the project won the India/UK Together, Season of Culture Program, which has made this show and project possible across the years. The showcase brings together the works of Imagining the Nation State Grant from phase 1 of this collaboration and the Communities of Choice open call from its phase 2. This collaboration and project has been made possible by the tremendous support of the British Council.

  • "This partnership has grown into a beautiful exchange of artistic projects over this period that has established the organisations and the artists into a community of our own. The theme and the artist projects are reflections and positions on identity, community and belonging in the current socio-political contexts across the two countries and we are thrilled to have this opportunity to show the works of 10 Indian and Welsh artists on the theme 'Communities of Choice'."

    Shuchi Kapoor, Co-Founder & Director, CPB Foundation, India

  • "Ffotogallery is delighted to be continuing its partnership with CPB Foundation in the Communties of Choice project. We hope that the connections and networks we build through this programme will continue and further develop into sustainable cultural exchange and collaboration between creatives in Wales and India in the future."

    — Siân Addicott, Director of Ffotogallery, Wales, UK

  • "Communities of Choice is one of those eye-catching exhibitions that celebrates the unique artistic expressions of two diverse and equally beautiful cultures, India and the United Kingdom, and it’s a must see for the audience. We are thrilled that this creative exhibit is a part of the India/UK Together, a Season of Culture, which celebrates our two countries' friendship and is poised to shape some of the most important issues of today’s world, particularly equality and inclusion."

    Janaka Pushpanathan, Director South India, British Council