Title
Travellers' Tales
Year/Period
2019
Region
India and Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Pls refer to individual dimensions
Accession No.
2020-00444
Collection of
In Traveller’s Tales, Lavanya Mani recreates the magic of the coveted Indian trade textiles and “fabricates” her own visual narrative of the colonial interest and acquisition of trade commodities and trading ports along the Coromandel Coast. Through her installation, she suggests that early travellers to the East were crucial in the dissemination of information about new and unknown lands. In this work, Lavanya tells the story of four port towns along the Tamil coast—Pazhaverkadu or Pulicat, Chennai or Madras, Puducherry or Pondicherry, and Nagapattinam. Their famed merchandise is presented in this installation to represent Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British interventions in these trade networks.
