1) दीवारों के भी कान होते हैं। (2024)
Kinetic, Interactive, Site-specific Installation
At India Art Fair supported by MTart agency.
In today's world, surveillance has permeated every aspect of society, profoundly affecting privacy, security, and personal liberties. Swift technological progress empowers governments and businesses to amass and scrutinize extensive personal data. The realm of widespread surveillance and data gathering has significant repercussions for both individual privacy and the collective society.
The concept takes cues from the Hindi idiom "दीवारों के भी कान होते हैं।" (Walls have ears too), emphasizing caution in divulging secrets, we reflect on the era of surveillance and data collection. This adage serves as a potent metaphor for the digital age, where our every move online can be monitored and stored. In an era of pervasive surveillance, it's imperative to realize that our digital footprint, too, has silent witnesses – the algorithms and data repositories. The wisdom lies in understanding that even inanimate entities can bear witness to our virtual lives, underscoring the significance of safeguarding our digital privacy and personal information.
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2) Echoes of Empathy (2023)
Kinetic/ Site-specific Installation
At @godrejdesignlab
The site-specific installation, developed in collaboration with Worli Koliwada's local fishermen community, delves into the importance of communication as a foundational element in building and preserving community bonds. It prompts exploration of our interactions with coastal landscapes, their cultures, and communities. Additionally, the project stimulates reflections on the concept of local identity and its evolutionary dynamics, while emphasizing the crucial role of effective communication in its sustenance.
3) Pipes and Leaks (2023)
Site-spesific participatory installation
In collaboration with Ronak Soni
At Mumbai Urban Arts Festival
Pipes and Leaks is an immersive, site-specific, and participatory installation that critiques water politics and its intricate systems of supply, privilege, and neglect. At its core, the installation features a maze of pipes designed as a metaphor for the labyrinthine systems of power and infrastructure. Architect Ronk Soni, employing algorithmic design, created the maze to mimic the organic growth patterns of a mangrove tree—an ecosystem renowned for its ability to sustain life under challenging conditions.
The pipes, made of recycled PVC, carry water through the maze, culminating in a functioning fountain that symbolizes a distorted cycle of access and inequality. The installation highlights a critical disparity: the pipes are designed to supply water to the middle and upper classes, while the leaks, often seen as flaws in the system, provide water to lower-income groups.
This duality—the purposeful design of the pipes versus the unintended yet vital leaks—invites viewers to reflect on their socio-political perspectives. For the privileged, leaks might signify inefficiency or waste; for the marginalized, they are lifelines. The installation critiques how privilege shapes perception, illustrating the corrosions and corruptions within systems that prioritize profit over equity.
The immersive experience allows participants to navigate the maze, symbolizing their role within these systems, and interact with the leaks and flows of water. Through this, the work challenges visitors to question their relationship with resources and their complicity in sustaining unequal systems of access.
Pipes and Leaks is both a celebration of resilience and a critique of structural inequity, urging a reimagining of resources as shared and sustainable.
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