INTO THE GONDVERSE
A COLLABORATIVE GOND ART PROJECT
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Into the Gondverse
A COLLABORATIVE GOND ART PROJECT
Sachin Vyam & Achyut Siddu
Into the Gondverse is the first book published by loksutr. It is authored and designed by Achyut Siddu, with illustrations by Pardhaan Gond artist Sachin Vyam. Structured as a coloring book, it curates 26 themes that explore the many layers of Pardhaan Gond culture; its symbols, beliefs, environment, and community life. Through a combination of image and word, the book invites readers to engage interactively with Pardhaan Gond traditions, offering a playful yet profound journey into the visual and cultural universe of the Pardhaan Gond community.
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Book Details
ISBN: 978-81-975775-2-9
Pages: 64
Number of illustrations: 26
Size: 8.2 x 10.8" (208 x 274 mm), Hard cover
Date of Publishing: 2023
Language(s): English
Publisher(s): Loksutr Social LLP
Rights Available: World rights
About the Author
Achyut Siddu
Achyut Siddu is an architect, writer, curator, and the co-founder of Loksutr. His practice brings together literary, ethnographic, and curatorial approaches to work with Indigenous communities in documenting and reimagining traditional knowledge systems. He is especially interested in how oral traditions can be shaped into contemporary visual and narrative forms without losing their cultural depth.
ABOUT THE Artist
Sachin Vyam
Sachin Vyam is a Pardhaan Gond artist based in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh. His work is shaped by close engagement with community stories, elders, and local traditions, which he interprets through intricate detail and careful composition. For Sachin, painting is an act of remembrance as much as making, where spoken knowledge finds a new life in image. His practice continues the Pardhaan role as keeper of memory, but in a contemporary visual form.
ABOUT THE Artform
Pardhaan Gond Art
Pardhaan Gond art is a contemporary Indian art form which evolved around Jangarh Singh Shyam as its progenitor in the 1980's. The art form is now carried forward and developed by the people from his own tribe. Traditionally, the Pardhaans who were the bards of the Gond tribe, sang songs of the ancestors of their Gond patrons and other epics.
Their paintings thus predominantly depict this intangible cultural heritage which comprise of lores, idioms, metaphors, proverbs, social practices, their deities and rituals associated with them.