Artists and Curators

Learn more about the people behind this project.

Photographer

Sudeesh Yezhuvath

Hailing from Chittur in Kerala’s Palakkad District, Sudeesh is an engineer and IT entrepreneur. He is actively involved in socio-cultural activities and has been very interested in photography since 2005.

His first exhibition titled “Yours is not to reason why” was held at Kochi, and was also shown in other cities including Kozhikode, Bangalore, and Madurai. He is an avid reader and art lover, which has also helped develop his photography practice.

his travel writings can be seen at Yezhuvath.com

Sudeesh lives in Bangalore with his wife and son.

Poet

PN Gopikrishnan

PN Gopikrishnan is a Poet, Critic and Cultural activist who was born and brought up at S N Puram, a village near the historical city of Muziris (Kodungallur).

He has published eight poetry collections, five non-fiction books and four translations.

Gopikrishnan is a recipient of many awards including Kerala Sahithya Akademi award, Odakkuzhal award and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Award for Poetry and N V Krishna Varier award and five other major awards under the Best Non-fiction category, for his work “The story of Hindutva politics”.

He is working as Chief Manager in Kerala State Financial Enterprises, Thrissur.

Curator

Murali Cheeroth

Murali Cheeroth is a visual artist with a BFA and MFA from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, a Diploma in Painting from the Government College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, and an advanced diploma in digital media.

Murali’s practice is deeply informed by research in the humanities and social sciences, situating each artwork within wider conversations on culture, environment, and societal transformation. His works invite viewers to experience the city not merely as a physical landscape but as a dynamic terrain of memory, desire, conflict, and possibility.

He has taught at CEPT University, the Kanoria Centre for Arts, and NIFT Bangalore and Chennai. His notable exhibitions include Passage to India (Frank Cohen Collection, UK, 2009), the India Art Summit, SH Contemporary Shanghai, Chicago Art Fair, London Art Fair, the Colombo Biennale (2012), Chalo India (Basel Art Centre, 2014), along with residencies and festivals in Malaysia, Colombo, Australia, and Austria.

Awards & Scholarships:

Raja Ravi Varma Puraskar (2023)
Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Award (1997–98)
Kanoria Scholarship for Printmaking (1997)
Junior Fellowship, Department of Culture, Govt of India (1997–99)
Cultural Scholarship, Govt of India (1993–95)
Merit Scholarships, Kala Bhavana (1989–92)

Curator

Jayaraj Sundaresan

Dr. Jayaraj Sundaresan is a Human Geographer and Urbanist. Jayaraj explores how people can forge nonviolent connections with each other unmediated by exclusivist and violent meta registers like nationalism, God, religion, property, and so on.

Jayaraj has taught at London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, Indian Institute for Human settlements and National Institute of Technology – Calicut.He lives between London and India.

Project Timeline

Project conceived and research started

Travel to Dhaka and Kolkata

Travel to Kolkata and Bihar

Travel to Delhi

Title of exhibition finalized

Final selection of works

Conclusion of exhibition design

Inauguration of the exhibition at Durbar Hall, Kochi

Exhibition at Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery, Thrissur

Exhibition at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2025