In Sacred Whispers, Anshika Varma looks at the relationship between myth-making and the sensorial archive residing within a Goan village, Gaonkarvado, through revisiting the memories of its inhabitants. In using memory as a navigational tool to understand the culture and history of the village, she proposes to bring forward questions on the process of history-creation, validation and representation of the individual. Using short stories that play with fantasy and reality, the artist attempts to create a form of
a historical book of the village, with histories that have been witness to the memories and imaginations
of its people.

The study of our collective histories is immersed in communal experiences; stories that travel through conversations, rituals shared between mothers and daughters, fears subsided over flaming chillies, memories strengthened over the family table; they all come together in sharing cultural histories not just bound within geographies but also within our emotional and psychological landscapes.

Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
Photography india Anshika Varma
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