Make Yourself At Home – A Photo Exhibition

This exhibition begins with a simple but powerful act: turning one’s gaze toward home. Here, Indrajit Khambe turns his camera inwards, towards his own home in Sindhudurg and the neighbouring villages such as Hampi and Harnai. His photographs are not spectacles; they are acts of attention.

Through his attentive wanderings, the village reveals itself not as a postcard image of rural life, but as a living, working landscape. We see how sarees become makeshift barricades in agricultural fields, how different fish are sought in different seasons, and how occupations shift with climate and economy. 

The aesthetic here emerges from habit — from the unconscious design of everyday life. The way a fisherman stands is shaped by years of balancing on a boat. The way a farmer bends informs us of his relationship with the soil. Every gesture carries the imprint of land, labour, and climate. Each of us carries such a microscape within us — a village, a neighbourhood, a small geography that has shaped our ways of being. The question is not whether it formed us, but whether we are willing to look at it closely — to examine its patterns without romance, and to see what has been there all along.

“Make Yourself At Home” becomes both invitation and method. It asks us to slow down and look closely at the places we think we already know. In stepping into Indrajit’s homeland, we are encouraged to reconsider our own and ask what it would mean to truly observe the place that made us.

CATALOGUE

Special thanks to Zapurza for their support.

Join us at the Museum of Goa to experience it in person!

The exhibition will be open for public viewing from the 17th of February 2026 till the 19th of April 2026.