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.
