Lines That World a River

About the work

Lines That World a River is a three-channel film in which the Indus emerges as a site of extraction, erasure and contested memory. It follows displaced communities of the Indus delta who paint murals and pictures to reconstruct and memorialise ancestral villages submerged by the construction of dams and barrages. At the centre of the three screens stands an enclosure evoking a dargah — often the only structure left standing in inundated settlements. An expanded iteration of Four Acts of Recovery (2025), the work was produced with the Han Nefkens Foundation South Asian Video Art Production Grant. Presented in The sky held it, the earth remembered at Ishara Art Foundation, an exhibition on land, water and the cosmos as living archives of memory and ecological change.