Document Type
Article
Department/Program
English
Department
Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies
Journal Title
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Pub Date
3-2023
Volume
14
Issue
1
First Page
5
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Abstract
This article examines the interrogation of visual history associated with Goan church architectural legacies offered by Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar’s installation series, This is Not the Basilica! (2021). The artist’s subject is the 16th-century Basilica of Bom Jesus, which was built in locally domesticated Baroque style during Goa’s Portuguese colonial era and which houses the remains of the Spanish saint, Francis Xavier. Kandolkar’s work makes viewers intimate with the Basilica’s history, I contend, so as to posit the need for conservation efforts that will save the deteriorating church while also revealing its unseen aesthetic past as a symbol of still-unfolding Goan identity.
Recommended Citation
Ferrão, R. Benedito, (Un)Seeing Goa’s Bom Jesus in Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar’s This is Not the Basilica! (2023). Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 14(1), 5-35.
https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29666
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29666
