A lulling Goan summer, two floors of a tawdry holiday home - flat reds, disheartened greens and stale browns and yellows, an old river stream quietly flowing by in quiet grace, dancing past plastic trash, and two art makers caught amidst this delicious incongruity.
This series holds within it an unspoken desire for the celebration of the middle-class, the almost-beautiful, the aspirational, and the all-tacky-all-glittery-all-gaudy bits of life that we rarely fetishize. The “Siolim Sisters”, as they call themselves in ode to the sweet old neighborhood tucked somewhere in between pristine beaches and high-rated fish curry joints, celebrate the confines of their queer but charming abode, embracing its oddities, embodying the awkwardness, trapped on a fake marble living room stage, posing only for each other, reinforcing the mundane even while dreaming of escaping it.
Photo Art by Shivani Gupta
