2022. The Sea is a Blue Memory

Single-channel video, (colour and sound), 10:25 min
Prints: liquid.vision_nil.land (after MalayaRubberPlantation, Getty), 2022
Bitmap white screen print on dye sublimation chromaluxe silver printing

In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023
Commissioned by Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Supported by National Arts Council, Singapore

The video attends to the sea as a site of remembrance and collective memory in relation to the journey of indentured labourers crossing into Malaya. Forming new narratives against colonial accounts of the indentured experience, the work looks through the speculative gaze of a wandering sea spirit from different angles and in different moments of time.