During the residency at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts, Annabel Schenck's objective is to undertake a research and creation project based on immersion, collaboration, and exchange. Through her artistic research, Annabel Schenck has opened up new possibilities for the traditional medium of engraving, creating new tools, using new materials, and innovating with the spatialization of the prints. By bringing her expertise to Goa, she aims to meet and exchange with the local printmakers while drawing inspiration from the vivid contrasts of Panjim’s surroundings and exploring how coastal development impacts the environment and local communities in Goa.
Sourav Chatterjee plans to immerse himself in scenes of daily life in Panjim and to interact with the fishing communities in Goa, who grapple with multiple challenges - over-exploitation, tourism, indiscriminate fishing practices, pollution, climate change, lack of proper management...
He seeks, through his painting, to transcribe societal attitudes, looks, or even the emotions of a society that is both familiar and foreign to him—because he has lived in Europe for seven years. How can he own these slices of life and transcribe them through small-scale paintings? By making the best of a residency in a place like Goa, he aims at breathing new life into Indian miniature painting, letting them echo with contemporary global sensitivities.
Annabel Schenck presents the atypical career of a French artist and engraver. She studied at Ecole Estienne and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, now the HEAR, where she continued her research around the medium of engraving and installations. She left for India to deepen her research on prints at Viswa-Bharati University, Santiniketan in 2009 before living and working in New Delhi. She presents an important career of exhibitions, residencies, in France and abroad, including exhibitions at the Aakriti gallery and at Studio 21, CIMA (Kolkata). In France, she distinguished herself by being selected for the Route 6 Project, organized and co-financed by the PAC, Provence-Art-Contemporain or by participating in the Art-O-Rama Hors les murs art fair, according to a Double Séjour project, curated by Thomas Havet.
Among her personal exhibitions, we can highlight Faites comme chez vous at MAC Arteum in Châteauneuf-Le-Rouge as part of Pareïdolie / Saison du Dessin 2023, or Après moi le déluge at Galerie Zemma, Marseille. Her monumental in situ installations that she created as part of the Printemps du dessin have been desplayed in the National Monument Center (CMN) at Fort St André in Villeneuve Lez Avignon in 2022 and Tours et remparts d'Aigues Mortes, in summer 2024.
Sourav Chatterjee is an Indian painter born in 1971 in Kolkata (Calcutta). He has lived and worked in Marseille since 2017. After studying at the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata, Sourav Chatterjee Sourav has continued his research in painting through a figurative and expressive work, based on spontaneity and improvisation. He is engaged in a painting resolutely outside of trends, an introspective work that relentlessly questions the condition of man in today's world. He has exhibited in several galleries in New Delhi and Kolkata. He recently joined the Cité d'artistes at Le Couvent, Marseille, along with Annabel. In France, we can highlight his 3 solo shows in galerie Le Cabinet d'Ulysse, A travers le miroir in 2023, Genèse in 2022 and Elégie in 2019.
