SAF to host exhibition that explores concept of home in diasporic world gulftoday.ae - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gulftoday.ae Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jahnvi Lakhota Nandan at her perfumer’s table at Olaulim Backyards
| Photo Credit:
Shameena Fernandes
Perfumer Jahnvi Lakhota Nandan’s pandemic journey shows us how the last months have reminded many of the power of smell and helped them reconnect with it
What is your first memory of smell? Mine is of smelling my sister’s head the day she was born, August 16, 1979. I really liked that smell of a clean human scalp, talc, and also surprise. Forty years later, in late 2019, when people started losing their sense of smell at the start of the pandemic, in a collective anosmia, the question became even more pertinent.
Rooshad Shroff, at Rooshad Shroff Gallery, Fort
For MGW 2021, architect Rooshad Shroff has teamed up with artist Tanya Goel for Obverse , a limited edition embroidered chairs. Speaking to AD India, Shroff explains, Obverse celebrates embroidered furniture and its intricate technique. Tanya s complementary artwork pays tribute to Indian craftsmanship. It was like translating a painting into embroidery form. This is Shroff s second collaboration with Goel after last year s The Gyaan Project, a charity initiative that also included contributions from BV Doshi, Atul Dodiya and Christian Louboutin. Initially launched to reinvigorate what many felt was Mumbai s fading art scene, the MGW has over the years grown vastly bigger in size and scale. Today, its major challenge is how to lure patrons back to museums after a year spent under Covid s dark shadow. Shroff says the timing is trickier still. On one hand you want footfalls and on the other, you don t want too much crowd and mainta