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Memories from a Goan family album
Updated On: 01 December, 2019 08:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
An evolving archival project to be showcased at Serendipty Arts Festival this month, is attempting to retrace local histories through photographs and family heirloom
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Fernandes family: Antoinette's sisters moved to Bombay in the 1940s to work at her aunt's beauty salon Primo's in Byculla
Memories are a rare treasure. But like old photographs, curling at the edges, they alter. The details thin with passing time, making this story unfinished. In August this year, when Lina Vincent and photographer Akshay Mahajan started work on Goa Familia, an evolving archive exploring the multidimensional aspects of family histories in Goa, they knew that dredging up distant memories wouldn't necessarily result in the absolute.
"The act of remembering is not always perfect," Mahajan admits. "One of those we interviewed, Antoinette Fernandes, suffers from dementia. Her memories came in bursts, when she saw old photographs or was prompted by her son Marius Fernandes. In some cases, photographs triggered almost perfect recollection, in others, the people at the edges grew fuzzy in her mind." Yet, stories like those narrated by Antoinette are the only possible way to preserve what remains of her life.
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