“Displacement Unveiled: Serendipity Arts Festival Showcases Global Artists Exploring Migration and Memory”
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The Old PWD Complex, Panaji, Goa -
11th December 2025
In a world marked by uncertainty and shifting identities, Displacement, a powerful exhibitionary inquiry, brings together the evocative works of multi-disciplinary artists Akram Zaatari, Ali Arkady, Hadi Rahnaward, Hassan Hajjaj, Hicham Benohoud, Nandan Ghiya, Rada Akbar, and Shaima Al-Tamimi. Presented at the tenth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, the exhibition reflects on the act of untethering—from land, history, culture, and even time—as a profound step toward self-realisation.
Drawing from lived journeys across the Levant to lyrical explorations of belonging, Displacement positions the artist as a migrant figure navigating rupture, memory, and return. Several of the featured practitioners will be exhibiting in India for the first time, offering audiences an extraordinary lens into interconnected social histories shared between the Indian subcontinent and the Arab worlds.
The exhibition maps contemporary experiences through diverse mediums—lithography with its engraved narratives, découpage with its layered revelations, and digital transfers that imprint memory onto stone, cloth, and wood. Together, these works unearth what curator Rahaab Allana calls “the archaeology of now,” inviting viewers to examine displacement not merely as loss, but as transformation.
Displacement will be open to visitors from 14 December 2025 to 21 December 2025, daily from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, at The Old PWD Complex, Patto Colony, Panaji, Goa.
The exhibition is curated by Rahaab Allana of the Alkazi Foundation, with scenography crafted by Sukanya Baskar.
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