2021

EXHIBITION

Works from the Catalyst grant

Afrah Shafiq

Asavari Gurav

Bhisaji Gadekar

Komas

Nandita Kumar

Poonam Pandit

This exhibition brings together six artists living and working in Goa who delve into the act of storytelling—through mythology, folklore, folk art, ecological reflection, and the fragmented realities of a post-truth world. Their works are threaded with personal mythologies and cultural references, exploring the ways in which narratives are shaped, reshaped, and reborn in contemporary contexts.

Through a range of media and approaches, each artist offers a reinterpretation of lived experience, filtered through the lenses of memory, place, and imagination. The exhibition is the result of a Catalyst Grant awarded by Goa Open Arts in 2020, initiated in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as a gesture of solidarity and sustained support for the artistic community of Goa.

At its heart, the exhibition invites viewers to consider storytelling as a transformative and connective act—one that bridges the personal and the collective, the past and the present, the real and the reimagined.

Nandita Kumar is the Catalyst New Media Awardee supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai