LASAM MARON
Lasam Maron is a traveling library, a space carved out for voices that have been pushed to the margins. It is a site of resistance, a container for feminist histories, decolonial narratives, and the stories of those who have been left out of the archive.
Built on the belief that books can be portals, Lasam Maron gathers works that challenge prevailing ways of seeing. The collection spans diverse media, from photobooks and critical theory to literature, and independent revues, drawing together artists, researchers, and storytellers from around the world. These works do more than document; they agitate, comfort, provoke, and heal. They are an invitation to unlearn, to soften, to rethink.
More than a library, Lasam Maron is a meeting ground. Through workshops, readings, and conversations, it offers a space to sit with difficult histories, imagine radical futures, and find solidarity in shared stories. We invite readers to journey into realms of collective introspection, where the politics of space and time are continuously rewritten—offering both refuge and a call to action.
Here, reading becomes an act of rebellion—a transformative practice of resistance and renewal that challenges dominant narratives while celebrating the unseen and unheard.
Lasam Maron is part of the resort public program.
If you would like to collaborate, host a session, or donate books to the collection, please get in touch at:
frontdesk.resort.collective@gmail.com / mehadesai.photo@gmail.com
Lasam Maron x THE MOUNT ex Sugar Estate
05/2025
The second edition of Lasam Maron took place in The Mount’s ex Sugar Estate and had Land Politics as a central focus. It was activated with a reading by Ariel Saramandi of The Inheritors, a passage of her book Portrait of an Island on Fire, along with a performance by Sarah Honoré accompanied by Tarun. This traveling library was generously hosted by Ods Pottery studio as well as The Creative Quarter Purple Lime. The books within the library were borrowed from Kim Yip Tong, Ariel Saramandi, Meha Desai, Victoria Desvax and Mati Jhurry.
Lasam Maron x ŌBOE
04/2024
With reading of Weirdo by Pascale, accompanied by soundscapes with Aliya Chojoo.
05/2025
The second edition of Lasam Maron took place in The Mount’s ex Sugar Estate and had Land Politics as a central focus. It was activated with a reading by Ariel Saramandi of The Inheritors, a passage of her book Portrait of an Island on Fire, along with a performance by Sarah Honoré accompanied by Tarun. This traveling library was generously hosted by Ods Pottery studio as well as The Creative Quarter Purple Lime. The books within the library were borrowed from Kim Yip Tong, Ariel Saramandi, Meha Desai, Victoria Desvax and Mati Jhurry.
Lasam Maron x ŌBOE
04/2024
With reading of Weirdo by Pascale, accompanied by soundscapes with Aliya Chojoo.