DURATION
3 months: August - October
INTAKE
1 Fellow
CURATORIAL FELLOW
About the fellow
Shalmali Shetty, a curator, artist and writer working between India and the UK. Shetty completed a BVA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2015), an MA in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2017). Furthermore, she has completed a Masters of Letters in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from the Glasgow School of Art (2020), supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship. Shetty's research interests included themes of archives, memories, hauntology, oral histories, and speculative ideas around prophecies, oracles and imagined futures, extending her focus through the familiar framework of India, the wider Global South and its neo-colonial relationship to the West.
Website: Shalmali Shetty
Social Media: Instagram
About the exhibition
The nights will follow the days is premised on the story of the haunting reappearance of a woman who allegedly returns to her home numerous times much after her passing. She finally returns for one last time before the house she used to inhabit—a link, a refuge, an emotion, an association, an identity—was demolished. Taking this as a metaphor, the exhibition navigates across themes of spectral memories and narratives associated with spaces, places, lands and oceans. Through the works of five artists, it further explores personal truths, displaced generational memories and histories affected by colonialism, migration and political landscapes—enabling a return to a place of remembrance and imagination.
Artists: Alia Syed │ Amba Sayal-Bennett │ Munem Wasif │ Shiraz Bayjoo │ Sumakshi Singh
Exhibition website: https://www.serendipityartsfestival.com/exhibition/the-nights-will-follow-the-days
Event Recording at The nights will follow the days - SAF x ASAP Curatorial Research Fellowship Talk | Saturday 16th December 2023 | Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVUueOFbWOo
Event Recording at SAF X ASAP Curatorial Research Fellowship Culmination Talk | Friday 9th February | Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, London