Goa attracts all kinds of visitors — the trip-happy partygoer, amorous honeymooners and the art seeker, too. With several Indian and international creative minds moving to the sunny state for imaginative pursuits, the demand for spaces that serve as a refuge to express has seen a rise. One such attempt is Heritage Hotel: Art Spaces (HH) in Goa. This live-work space for artists is a hotel just in name. HH is housed in a 100-year-old Portuguese villa, once a hotel, before artists and friends Madhavi Gore and her partner Nikhil Chopra, and Romain Loustau transformed it to HH. “We didn’t want to change the history of the space, and liked the name Heritage Hotel, which is why we stuck with it,” says Gore, who has stayed in Dubai and Mumbai among other cities.

Jana Prepeluh uses the pool for her performance, OPEN 3, May 2015