Archiving = Collect, Organise, Document, Preserve, Build Controlled Easy Access
Memories and actions get imprinted in materials and practices. Some of them are significant collective heritage, while some are very intimate personal memoirs. We inherit tangible and intangible heritage that needs systematic archiving. Archiving helps in carrying forward legacies, making justice to unique unacknowledged practices, celebrating family histories and industrious feats, and learning from revolutionary ideas.
Faandee enjoys working with individuals holding family legacies, private and public art collections, community heritage-oral and material histories and anything that celebrates cultural diversity.
Each project carried out by Faandee is a use case envisaged in different institutional spaces demanding distinct collaborations and custom solutions for a viewer’s lasting memory of the curatorial pursuits.
Services
Documentation and Cataloguing
We work toward making your collection accessible, accountable, retrievable, and publishing ready at your will. Further we assist you in building narratives to celebrate your legacy.
Conservation Consultancy
To preserve and extend life your artworks and artefacts apt diagnosis and assessment is utmost important. We work with specialist conservators to offer tested and tailored solutions to enhance your collection.
Storage Consultancy
Life of an artwork is threatened owing to improper storage or display methods. We assess, recommend, and design in-situ or custom solutions.
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Bharatan Archives – A Family & Artists’ Archive
Modern Indian art is shaped through several celebrated and many unknown hands. Maledath Bharatan a Textile Chemist from Kerala who initially finds a job at Mumbai, then joining the Communist Party of India, actively works under the cultural wing to inspire artists toward radical social awareness. M. Bharatan though lesser documented have worked closely toward…
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Suhas Bahulkar – Artist Archive
Suhas Bahulkar- an artist, art historian known for documenting and publishing history of several artists from Maharashtra and Bombay School through the”Encyclopaedia of Visual Art of Maharashtra: Artists of Bombay School and Art Institutions” and several other books. His personal studio practice and public projects are documented by Faandee, offering a comprehensive archiving and cataloguing…
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Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams. Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin
Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin April 2024 | A year long exhibition programme Warli art, renowned for its indigenous graphic vocabulary, forms the foundation of the artistic practice of Tushar and Mayur Vayeda. As young artists deeply engaged with themes of agroforestry, the Vayeda brothers work to…