CURATORS
Lina Vincent is an art historian and curator with two decades experience in arts management. As an independent consultant since 2009, Lina has worked on multi-disciplinary projects that highlighted plural approaches and collaboration. The focus areas of her research extend to arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions, and environmental consciousness in the arts. Her current practice foregrounds sustained engagement with material culture and social history, seen through acts of community interaction, documentation, archiving and interpretation. Since 2021 she heads the ‘Sunaparanta Art Initiator Lab’, (S.A.I.L) mentorship project, Goa; in 2023, she concluded ‘Sandooka – The Living Museum of Kodava Culture,’ virtual project commissioned by India Foundation for the Arts. She curated ‘Travelling Plants’, multi-city exhibition in collaboration with Goethe Institute Chennai (24-25). Lina has curated numerous exhibitions with galleries across India and contributes to publications on art history and contemporary cultural practices.
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Akshay Mahajan is a curator, photographer, and writer invested in community histories and archival excavation. His curatorial practice is shaped by a deep engagement with visual storytelling, folklore, and alternative publishing, foregrounding how archives—both institutional and informal—shape our understanding of history. Mahajan’s curatorial projects often highlight peripheral modes of publishing as acts of artistic resistance. His work considers how historical narratives are constructed, contested, and reimagined through images, texts, and community memory. Through his curatorial and editorial work, he continues to explore how archives can serve as living, evolving spaces of engagement rather than static repositories of the past.
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PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Nishant Saldanha is an artist working across drawing, photography, and writing. With a background in art and design from Central Saint Martins, London, and a degree in filmmaking and character animation from the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, his practice navigates multiple disciplines.
His award-winning comic, Mr. Good Guy, takes an experimental approach to storytelling and was featured in The Best American Comics 2019; the same year, he was recognized as one of GQ’s Most Influential Young Indians.
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Christina Dedhia is a curatorial and research assistant with multidisciplinary experience across contemporary art, design, and heritage. Based in Goa, she works at the intersection of art conservation, research, and display practices, bringing together her background in history, archaeology, museum studies, and art conservation.Her practice focuses on building meaningful connections between the past and present, bridging gaps between research, contemporary art, and conservation.
Alongside her curatorial work, she is a skilled graphic designer and often works with catalogs, social media etc. She regularly contributes articles to blogs and online platforms, while also pursuing independent scholarly research, presenting at both national and international conferences.
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Divesh Gadekar, since his graduation in April 2015 has been working in a multidisciplinary way, exploring both material and sound. He has a interest in performance as a means of expression. His art practice flows with lot of these different mediums and has worked on sound installation, performance videos and combinations of drawings with these mediums. He also collects musical instruments and have been working on researching folk instruments and ritual performances in his home region of Goa.
Manashri Pai Dukle is an Artist, Art Historian and an educator based in Goa. She is currently a PhD Scholar at SNDT Women’s university and is the founder of The Art Docu-Mentor Project. She works within the intersection of experimental and research-based art.