A curated display that explores the juncture of time, architecture and archives documented through memory and people and highlights the role of archiving in preserving and promoting our shared heritage for future generations. The museum display is spread across a cluster of seven buildings that form a centre for the appreciation of Nepal’s artistic and architectural history. All works exhibited are from the NAA (Nepal Architecture Archive), a private collection of the Saraf Foundation. The Taragaon Museum is the starting point of the foundation’s aim to document Nepal’s cultural heritage and support historic preservation in the Kathmandu valley and beyond.
Veeranganakumari Solanki is an independent curator and writer based in India. She is interested in the way interdisciplinary forms and creative practices merge to create dialogues in public and private spaces and the convergence of images across disciplines. Further, her research and practice consider how historical and contemporary thought informs exhibition-making and artistic practices to expand the ideas of medium specificity through narration, memory, time and story-telling. Her curatorial discourse has focused primarily on art practices within South Asia and its diasporic context. Veerangana was the 2019 Brooks International Research Fellow at Tate Modern and a resident at Delfina Foundation. Currently, she is the Programme Director at Space Studio, Baroda, a core team member of Art Chain India and teaches the Curatorial Practice MFA programme at Kathmandu University. She curated ‘Future Landing: The Arcade’ at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 and is also the Visual Arts Curator for the Serendipity Arts Festival 2023.
