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<b>Lunch with BS:</b> The curator's eye

Sudarshan Shetty tells Anjuli Bhargava how he selects what he shows the rest of the world

Sudarshan Shetty
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Sudarshan Shetty

Anjuli Bhargava
For the last four days that I have wandered around various locations that house the art installations at the Kochi art biennale, I have been eager to get into the head of the man who chose the artworks. How does he decide what gets to be part of the show and what doesn’t? In a show as energetic, experiential and esoteric as this, what comprises good work and what doesn’t?

I finally catch up with him, the curator of biennale 2016, artist and sculptor Sudarshan Shetty, at the quaint Solar Café in Fort Kochi. The café is more like a