Giving Scrap A Second Life

There are items made of cast iron, copper-wire and mud. Body-building items such as casted-iron dumbbells, martial sports laathis (sticks); kitchen articles such as scissors, stoves, knives and scrapers, and tools of labour such as hammer, shovel and wrench are welded together to give them some shape.

Bengaluru-based artist Archana Hande’s installation ‘My Kottige’, which is showcased at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, is her innovative take on changing times, urbanisation and rejection of the unwanted, both things and people. She arranges “discarded” things as a  “witness” of their time and space.