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Since its first iteration as 'HG Street' in 2018, The Homegrown Festival has been a creative playground at the intersection of art, design, fashion, food, music, film, photography, and youth culture in India. After a year-long hiatus, The Homegrown Festival is back — and it's bigger and better than ever. Among all the fun, exciting, and thought-provoking events Homegrown has planned for you this year, The Homegrown Festival will see a never-seen-before body of work by Santanu Hazarika, Peter Cat Recording Co.'s first festival show in two years, and a larger-than-life installation by the virtuoso production designer Nimish Kotwal.
Nimish Kotwal's 'Sinner', a larger-than-life sculptural installation resembling a masked giant octopus made from scrap metal, will be showcased for the first time at The Homegrown Festival 2025. The tentacled giant symbolises dominance, according to Kotwal.
"The gas mask signifies the uninhabitable conditions caused by greed, resonating with the current socio-environmental challenges. The debris-strewn tentacles further highlight the irreversible damage caused by the relentless pursuit of power and exploitation," Kotwal says. "This piece will compel us to confront the pressing realities which we are a part of and responsible for."
Sinner is a thought-provoking and powerful visual commentary on what, where, and how we exist — it represents a world torn apart by greed and exploited by the powers that be. Each facet of this larger-than-life installation compels us to confront our precarious realities and reconcile with the responsibility we have in shaping an otherwise dystopian future.
About the artist:
Nimish Kotwal is a production designer based in Mumbai. With more than 350 commercials and collaborations with Indian and international directors to his credit, the advertising virtuoso says there's always "madness to his method". Follow Nimish Kotwal here.
'Sinner', a larger-than-life sculptural installation by Nimish Kotwal, will be showcased at The Homegrown Festival at the Richardson & Cruddas (1972) Ltd. in Byculla, Mumbai, on February 22 and 23. Grab your passes here.
Brand Labs
Our partners and collaborators will be hosting a series of brand labs and activations over the course of the Homegrown Festival 2025. You can expect to see a whole host of exciting pop-ups from Black & White, Adidas Vibes, Tata Motors, Royal Enfield Royal Enfiled, Stone X, New Era, Fila, Heineken, and AIX.
