The Country of the Sea

Single-exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
2015
16 X 5 feet
at Experimenter, Kolkata 
Raster-Emerging from the grid 
November 18 to December 31, 2016 

CAMP with Shunya Collective present a large solar cyanotype map of the sea, part of the long-term maritime project Wharfage. 

More than 100 cities and small ports from Khor al Zubair/ Basra to the Mozambique corridor from North-South, and from Bharuch to Berbera East to West, are marked as frontier towns. The sea in between is proposed as its own “country”, a new geographical and cultural entity. 

Gallery: The Country of the Blind
The Country of the Sea

Single exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
CAMP with Shunya collective and Clark House Initiative 22 x 5 feet
An image of the sea as its own “country”, with frontier towns at its edges disorients an easy reading of this territory

In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises

Featuring The Country of the Sea

Indigo Waves and Other Stories:

Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea
Organised by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Natasha Ginwala, Hajra Haidar.

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

At
Body Building
Ishara Art Foundation

Wharfage

At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2008-2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.

Country of the Sea

CAMP at Transmediale 2018, Berlin with reprinted Wharfage, The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" Exhibition and The Country of the Sea cyanotype.



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