NAMASTE!

© ZUZANA ZWIEBEL

STYLE   |  AAZHI ARCHIVES

ORIGIN NARRATIVES

AAZHI ARCHIVES

Stories of communities about origin, spread and apocalypse being presented through episodic memories, narrative and visual texts, travel writings, murals, divine objects, church paintings, and songs provide a dense and myriad repository of historical and artistic imagination.

© KR SUNIL

story   |  ARTISTS & INSPIRATIONS

IN HIS PURSUIT

KR SUNIL

KR Sunil goes beyond his frames to explore and discover soulful human stories. In this journey, he pursues a long forgotten life, that of a Tamil boy who endured the worst in a journey to Kerala. As the World Cup fever peaks, here is a story.

© INDIA IN STYLE

STYLE   |  AAZHI ARCHIVES

SEA A BOILING VESSEL

AAZHI ARCHIVES

Aazhi archives presents Sea A Boiling Vessel. Its first exhibition as part of a long term multidisciplinary project that brings together artists, performers, scholars and intellectuals to contemplate together on the cosmopolitan pasts and futures of Kerala.

© KR SUNIL

story   |  MATTANCHERRY & FORT COCHIN TALES

Peemakumari's Cats

KR SUNIL

Peemakumari has been living alone for years in an old building in Mattancherry. A rickety building that has doors which are closed with old sacks. I saw her once sitting with a number of cats. The cats ran away seeing me, a few stood at a distance with caution.

© AGHIL MENON

story   |  MANCHUKKAR - THE SEAFARERS OF MALABAR

III. TRAVEL NARRATIVES

URU ART HARBOUR

The journeys of Mancukkar have spawned various forms of oral histories and local narratives all across northern Malabar. Their travel accounts are a richly rewarding source of geography, ethnography and cultural history.

© UNKNOWN

story   |  MANCHUKKAR - THE SEAFARERS OF MALABAR

II. A COMMUNITY ON THE MOVE

URU ART HARBOUR

The history of mancukkar is the history of migrant labourers who were the pioneers of cross-regional labour vital to the functioning of trade, transportation and pilgrimage throughout the Arabian Sea and beyond.

© KR SUNIL

story   |  MANCHUKKAR - THE SEAFARERS OF MALABAR

I. PEOPLE, GOODS AND IDEAS IN MOTION

URU ART HARBOUR

Looking at maritime travels interconnectedness of various communities, their narratives and their collective sense of history and memory, many travel writers have described medieval and early modern Keralam as a world on the move.

© ZUZANA ZWIEBEL

story   |  URU ART HARBOUR

KR SUNIL
The Seafarers of Malabar

URU ART HARBOUR

There aren’t many places in the world, to which monsoon winds and the smell of spices brought more sea trading ships than to the ports in Kerala. Their glory has faded, but photographer KR Sunil in silent portraits of sea sailors is capturing their stories.

© KR SUNIL

story   |  URU ART HARBOUR

KR SUNIL
Mattancherry Series

URU ART HARBOUR

My impressions of Mattancherry was informed by the widely available images and representations. But while shooting for “Mattancherry Series” all my perceptions shattered. I felt that every space is created to encourage cohabitation and togetherness.

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