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Go Goa Gone
Updated On: 19 November, 2023 08:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes
An upcoming exhibition turns to Angela Ferrao’s socially critical sketches laced with humour to make a comment on the threatened Goan identity and infra onslaught on its culture and landscape
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Ask satirical cartoonist and illustrator Angela Ferrao what spurs her social commentary, and she says she wants to “hopes to amplify issues that affect local communities close to home or elsewhere”. The resident from Siolim in Goa began to focus on cartoons in 2011, and now uses the skill to address politics and environmental activism. Her works are set to be exhibited at an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Gitanjili in Panjim-Pousada next month, titled The Uninvited.
For the cartoonist, presenting a counter-view to existing beliefs about the beach state and its people, especially its Goan Catholic population, is priority. “It’s my take on my community,” she says. “The kind of gaze that Goa and Goans are portrayed through—a hedonistic, loose place where you can come and go —through my work, I want to remind people of the presence of a thriving local community that is often forced to comply with the cultural and environmental changes imposed by builder and tourist lobbies.” The idea for the exhibition birthed when Benedito Ferrao, professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at William and Mary College in Virginia, US, wrote a comic book which she illustrated, and brought into perspective the view of Goa being “colonised” by the modern-day invaders, or commercial entities.
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