"Deep Sea, Deep Time", commissioned for Kochi Muziris Bienalle 2025, draws parallels between Muziris—an ancient trading port—and the submarine cable systems running beneath Kochi’s shores today, carrying digital data, while following the old colonial routes.
Inspired by the recent retirement of one of the largest submarine internet cables landing in Kochi, the work treats its submerged remains as material traces of our digital present. Fragments that one day will point future experts back to histories of exploitation, extraction, colonial practices and environmental impact.

The installation unfolds as an excavation both below and above the ground, where different materials and temporalities intersect.
A mosaic floor emerges within an excavation trench, revealing exposed cross-sections of submarine cables like unearthed artifacts.
Nearby, shattered screens are held together by bamboo scaffolding—traditional building methods attempting to support the broken remains of digital technologies. Inspired by Greco Roman amphorae found near Pattanam, vessels from local soil embedded with debris transform soil into the ultimate container, binding cultural memory with geological time.

Curated by Nikhil Chopra and HH Artspace

The work is supported by the ARTWORKS 2025 Grants program, funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and other individual donors.
Participation through the International Curators Visiting Programme of EMST Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art.