Ishita ChakrabortyKNMA

Overview

Inheritors of Earth, curated by Premjish Achari, invites viewers into the relational world of plants, entities long treated as backdrop, resource, or specimen rather than co-inhabitants of the earth. The title draws on Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s Bhumiyude Avakashikal, envisioning humans, flora and fauna as equal co-custodians of the planet, and on ecological activist Kallen Pokkudan, whose mangrove-planting work fused Dalit history with ecological repair.

Through paintings, photographs, installations and video, artists here practice a “phytosensitive” approach: encountering rather than merely representing plants, tracing colonial botanical migrations, and honoring uncredited lower-caste knowledge-keepers erased from scientific archives.

Curated by Premjish Achari

Director of Manuel Rabaté