Keerthana Kunnath - Not What You Saw

A woman in a sleeveless green dress squats on a grass path under palm trees and flexes her arm. That's Bhumika, 2024, and it sets the pattern. You get the contest poses, raised arms, flexed biceps, a leg turned out, but Kunnath shoots Kerala's female bodybuilders away from the gym and the stage: in greenery, by the sea, or against a brightly painted wall standing in for a studio backdrop.

This is her first museum show, and she says most of the pictures are new. Over three years the group grew to more than a dozen women, and the later images go into their homes. In Kerala, she notes, women wear saris even on the beach, so she and her stylist, Elton John (not that one), draped traditional garments over muscular bodies.

AnOther's Zoe Whitfield found the pictures "immediately striking and invariably layered". Entry is the €16 museum ticket, free with a Museumkaart and for under-12s, and Foam is open until 21:00 on Thursdays and Fridays.