Vijai Maia Patchineelam

For a period of six-months in 2020, Vijai Patchineelam together with the artist Adrijana Gvozdenović were invited to co-direct CONA Foundation and run the public programing of the space. CONA Foundation is a not for profit artist’s initiative, which was founded in 2012 by the artists Hemali Bhuta and Shreyas Karle in the north of Mumbai, India.

In 2017, Vijai edited the book Samba Shiva: The Photographs of Sambasiva Rao Patchineelam, published by Zum/IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles), Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Samba Shiva, Vijai revisits the photographic archive of his father, a scientist who immigrated to Brazil at the end of the 1970s. The artist proposed to himself the role of the editor, while the authorship of the book is credited to Sambasiva. This displacement of roles is part of a larger project that Vijai pursues in his PhD.