Date: March 21st to 19th April Time- 11.00am-7.00pm All days, except Mondays Venue: 47 A, Khotachiwadi Description: From James Ferreira's home to many other places, here are two artists who have delved deep into culture and history. 47A proudly presents Shadows of Empire, a captivating show. It is opening on March 21. Through their work, both artists from distinct worlds …
Date: March 21st to 19th April
Time– 11.00am-7.00pm
All days, except Mondays
Venue: 47 A, Khotachiwadi
Description:
From James Ferreira’s home to many other places, here are two artists who have delved deep into culture and history.
47A proudly presents Shadows of Empire, a captivating show. It is opening on March 21. Through their work, both artists from distinct worlds have reinterpreted Mumbai’s Khotachi Wadi—a hidden Portuguese-British heritage village nestled in the city’s heart.
Jit Chowdhury, Kolkata-based visual storyteller, brings his shola-pith and indigo collages—crafted from Bengal’s natural mangroves—to capture the village’s imperial remnants through a fresh outsider’s gaze, weaving history’s textures into portraits of its everyday people.
Mumbai native Kaushal Parikh, the ex-banker-turned-photographer and painter, unearths intimate layers with his sharp-eyed camera and bold mixed-media strokes. His images and paintings reveal hidden lives amid the wadi’s fading bungalows—humor, controversy, and color exploding from colonial bones.
In 2026, as India thrives post-yoke, this show celebrates how empires’ cultural imprints merge into our contemporary mosaic.
About 47A
47-A IS A VENUE FOR ART, CRAFT & DESIGN
It is set in one of our favourite places: the beautiful Khotachi Wadi, one of the original villages of Bombay, in the culturally historic area of Girgaum, rich in diversity and inclusiveness.
47-A Khotachi Wadi is a 19th-century Portuguese-style house, and its ground floor is now our gallery.
We trace the lines between craft, art and design and find them increasingly blurred; 47-A delves into all of these and presents shows that are deeply researched and brilliantly curated.
Our aim is to showcase, to educate and inform, to debate and discuss and to shine a light on the finest craft, art and design that we discover.
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