Gond Painting Workshop - EkiBeki Association

Name: Gond Painting Workshop - EkiBeki Association
Start: 2024-11-21T17:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-11-24T16:00:00+05:30
Location: Ajanta Building, C-35, 3rd Cross Road, Khar West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400052, India

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 05:00 pm to Sun Nov 24 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC+05:30

Location

Ajanta Building, C-35, 3rd Cross Road, Khar West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400052, India | Mumbai, MH

Before our land divided into nations and states, there was a common thread that tied us all together: art. Just as Aboriginal Art in Australia uses dots and dashes to tell stories, Gond Art in Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, predates our modern maps. Both art forms draw inspiration from the performances, dances, and the natural beauty of our surroundings. Both Aboriginal Art and the indigenous Gond art forms prominently feature dots, but their meanings diverge beautifully. In Aboriginal art, the dots symbolize territory and the concept of dreaming. In contrast, Gond art carries a deeper, ancestral significance: shamans believe that the particles of their bodies disperse into space, merging with those of the spirits to form new bodies.