01 Jul 2025 to 15 Jul 2025

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts presents the recipients of the VM Salgaocar Fellowship & Emerging Artist Grants 2024. This exhibition showcases the ongoing research by Fellowship Awardees Farah Mulla & Wenceslaus Mendes and Emerging artist awardee Kiran Tamboskar.

Their research explores ideas of memory, perception, tradition, and collective experience that span sound, light, archival storytelling, and participatory ritual. Through sensory interfaces, community histories, and personal memory, their grantee’s works reflect deep research, experimentation, and a commitment to reimagining cultural narratives.

Mulla’s research takes root in the story of Abbé Faria, the forgotten Goan father of modern hypnotism. Her works, Lumen and Erasure, are part of her ongoing project, Radical Ephemeralities, and explore the gaps and overlaps in human cognition through the immaterial materialities of light, sound, and memory.

Mendes’ Kalchi Kodi is a reimagining of Alan Sekula’s A Fish Story. Through an interdisciplinary, archival, and multi-medium approach, the project explores how shifts in technology, environment, and climate change affect gender roles and the traditional fishing communities of the Konkan region in Goa.

Tamboskar’s Co-Creation: A Human Ritual is an installation rooted in a deeply personal yet universally shared experience. What began as memories of temple drumming from childhood grew into a broader exploration of memory, sound, community, and the human need for connection—especially through ritual.