Bageecha
Bageecha
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Bageecha is an eco-cultural artistic research project selected to become part of Engage Biennial, Rotterdam in 2025. Bageecha means "personal garden" in Hindi and Urdu, an intimate space of cultivation, care, and belonging. The project explores the social, cultural, and poetic significance of home gardens in the city. These green spaces become sanctuaries and stages where memory, identity and ecological interdependence take root.
Through this project, I explored the social, cultural, and poetic layers hidden within the home gardens people create in cities: the balcony pots, courtyards, or sidewalk patches that often go unnoticed. I came to see these gardens as quiet sanctuaries—places where I, and many others, reclaim a sense of agency and connection with the more-than-human world.
By collecting stories, speaking with participants, and creating artistic encounters, I tried to reveal how these small green spaces hold memory, identity, and ecological interdependence. For me, Bageecha was an attempt to show that “home” is not merely a structure but a living landscape shaped by gestures of attention and care.
The research, rooted in Delfshaven, Rotterdam, was carried out in collaboration with the gardeners of Behind The Culture Gardens. I documented their personal imaginings of what a garden can be, and together we transformed these into co-created artworks and an interactive booklet. These were presented as part of an installation during the opening of the Biennial, from 9th–12th October at UBIK Rotterdam.
The research, rooted in Delfshaven, Rotterdam, was carried out in collaboration with the gardeners of Behind The Culture Gardens. I documented their personal imaginings of what a garden can be, and together we transformed these into co-created artworks and an interactive booklet. These were presented as part of an installation during the opening of the Biennial, from 9th–12th October at UBIK Rotterdam.
My practice as a scenographer often brings together sound, poetry, and interactivity, and in this project I used these tools to give voice to the landscapes and bodies that surround us.
Installation photos by Sharon Jane D
Engage is a New Deals for Culture project, initiated by Stichting Creative Action Now (lead applicant and organizer) and V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, CASE (Centre for Arts and Sciences Education), Grounds Podium, LantarenVenster, De Laurenskerk, Stichting Gizmo (Brecht Hermans).
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