India, June 9 -- What is curation and what do you think it ought to achieve?

To me, curating is elaborating a space and time of togetherness. It's building a conversation between artworks that helps the conversation between humans. It's creating links that separate and bind people, emphasizing their differences and their unexpected similarities.

Kochi Muziris Biennale has always had artist curators. Do you necessarily see a split between the two or can they coexist?

As far as I am concerned, I enjoy very much stepping aside from my own practice to be a curator. If each practice is different - being an artist or a curator - in what it entails and the skills it requires, at the end of the day, it still emanates from the love of Art and t...