Artist at work | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
On a trip along the southeastern coast of Chennai, currently an art show with a prosperous maritime connection to South-East Asia, currently displayed in the Dakshin Pachr Museum, Chennai, was shown at an art show in Coromandel. Developed by a team of ten intern working through the year-long Dak Chola Internship of the museum, show interview research and design to bring out the low-knowledge aspect of maritime history.
“Business stories often focus on the West coming to India,” Mugdha Chavan says, adding, adding, “but for Southeast Asia, we were the West. There was a complete cultural and commercial exchange in that direction, and we wanted to reveal this lesser story.”
The group was divided into two teams – research and design. While the researchers discovered the routes, cultures and objects, the design team brought them into visible life. Most pieces of the display, from replication coins and earthen pots to navigational charts, were prepared by hand. The inscriptions were engraved with the help of the museum’s in-house artisan.
Artists establishing exhibitions | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Divided into three volumes: beginning, peak, and echo, exhibition maps this trans-optional connection as a map. The first section presents archaeological and literary evidence, which includes the confluence verses that mention the ports, and the items that were traded.
The next section examines traditional navigation techniques that use finger-pap techniques and alignment of stars to navigate. A documentary shot by the intern at Kasimedu Harbor currently features fishermen, which interprets traditional ship-making and sailing methods that echo the people of the past.
The last section, The Ekos, the temple’s architecture, language and mythology, shows the cultural footprints left behind, which resonate in the boundaries. A huge statue of Lord Murugan in Malaysia, leather puppets paint RamayanaAnd similarities in temple design in Southeast Asia, all point to the cultural infusion capable of business.
Team behind the exhibition Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
To view by May 18, Coromandel’s echoes, invites visitors to discover a shared history of travel size in the sea., In Dakshinach, any four aesthetics can also examine an art exhibition when viewed till 11 May. This exhibition shows diversity in art forms and diversity in various interpretations of styles, subjects and emotions.
Published – May 06, 2025 03:54 pm IST
