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Kovai Art Trail

Under St+art Kovai, the first project involved the creation of a walkable art trail on the Government Art College Road in the city. four artists came together to enliven four different buildings located on the road, with pieces that drew inspiration from both Kovai’s history and its present. Situated in an area that accommodates a high concentration of diverse pedestrians, the pieces were conceptualised so as to be relevant to a large audience - both local and global.

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Kannagi Art District

Located off the Old Mahabalipuram Road in Chennai, Kannagi Nagar is one of the biggest resettlement sites in India. Made up of multi-storied apartments, it houses a population of 80,000 people living in 24000+ households with residents including people rehabilitated from three of the city’s river beds, slums across the city, and people affected by the devastation of the 2004 Chennai tsunami. In February 2020, closely working with the Greater Chennai Corporation and the Chennai Smart City Limited program, we made it the site for India’s fifth public art district, working with 15 artists whose pieces focused centrally on the themes of migration, displacement and movement.

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Ukkadam Art District

From its birds to its cinema posters, the city of Coimbatore is home to a unique set of cultural indicators. In March 2020, a diverse set of five artists imbued the city’s cultural ethos in their respective pieces to create the first line of artworks for the Ukkadam Art District. Located in Kovai’s Ukkadam Colony - a TNSCB site, the art district is India’s sixth and the state’s second open-air and open-to-all public art gallery.