PANAJI
A photographic exhibition, ‘Goa: A time that was’ by Ipshita Maitra, Waswo X Waswo and Dr Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar will be on at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts in Panaji from September 8 to November 20. This exhibition will visit three different phases in Goa’s history and invite a reflection into the cultural identity of a place which is holding on to its past while charting its path for the future. The exhibition will be open from 10 am to 6.30 pm. Ipshita Maitra showcases a two-part collection “ ‘Lost addresses’ and ‘Once was home’ “ chronicling the changes in the ethnographic, ancestral, geographic landscape. Waswo X Waswo in collaboration with Rajesh Soni will bring together two distinct styles “ the vintage studio portrait and traditional photo hand colouring in this personal memoir of his years spent in Goa. Remembrances is an autobiographical series in which monochromatic images depicting rural life are juxtaposed with two miniature figures (the lovers) painted into the scene by Waswo’s another collaborator, miniaturist R Vijay. A site-specific installation by Dr Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar presents his ongoing research into the afterlife of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the few surviving monuments in Old Goa and an emblem of Indo-Portuguese aesthetics. In his work, a larger-than-life print of the Basilica is hidden under a scaffolding layered with palm fronds and tarpaulin.
