Not a shore, neither a ship, but the sea itself

Free
Exhibition
Visual Art

Curated by
Sahil Naik

The Old GMC Complex

14th December - 21st December
11:00 AM - 07:00 PM

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The research based, inter-generational exhibition brings together artists from Goa, the Goan diaspora; those that have passed through it or engage with affinitive oceanic histories - to argue an internationalism that has spanned ancient maritime worlds, colonisation and modernity to contribute to our complex, cosmopolitan-contemporary.

Through artworks and objects along with artistic research it presents a thesis that moves beyond the limited framework of Goa as a site, and instead embraces the spirit of Goa or Goa-ness as an atmosphere, a sensation and a feeling of belonging. A range of existing and in-process works in the exhibition take the form of “association charts” spanning linear, parallel and speculative histories; and those preserved in story, song, rumour and remakes.

The curatorial framework employs multiple Entry Points to conceptually “travel”. It hopes to stage material in speculative constellations of devotion, friendship, exploration, trade and conflict, across the Indian Ocean World through and from Goa. Here, I intend to extend iconographic affinities and material relations of art, into the cultural, linguistic and economic enmeshments of trade and travels, could provide a larger imagination for a cultural moment, unique to Goa. These transmissions will form a scaffolding for a range of impulses, artworks, texts, traditions and reproductions to form a “worlding.”

The exhibition focuses three primary research currents/questions/propositions: the first is the staging of the historical as produced in the overlaps between ‘hard’ infrastructures of materials and techniques and the ‘soft’ membranous modes of memory, orality, anecdote and personal archives. The second is to plot the overturning of a closed historical form to produce frameworks where collections, contemporary artistic work and embodied knowledge enmesh to incubate possible pasts and futures. And finally it hopes to generate inspired terrains, where we move beyond regional and site-specific understandings to harness the potential of temporary communities, cultural affinities, co-incidences and nomadism that has enabled a cross pollination of cultures and modes of hybridity along our worlds.

Artists:

Afrah Shafiq

Balraj Khanna

Divyesh Undaviya

Gaurang Naik

Jovita Alvares

Karishma D’Souza

Krishna Reddy

Madhurjya Dey

Monica Correa

Muhanned Cader

Nataraj Sharma

Pritish Naik

Ryan Abreu

Shivanjani Lal

Simryn Gill

Viraj Naik

Walter D’Souza

Image credit: Gaurang Naik

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