The Hands of Gods

Installation +Short Film (2025)


Sculptural installation + short film (5:44) 

Materials: Bottled water, mango boxes, family photos, iPhone

Dimensions: Variable

A provisional altar constructed from commodity infrastructure.

Bottled water functions as load-bearing structure.
Fruit crates distribute weight.
A plank becomes table.
Family photographs are taped directly to the wall.

The installation foregrounds diasporic domesticity as architecture — built from what is available, temporary, and globally sourced.

At its center is a left-handed ritual act — historically disciplined under empire and religion — here repositioned as sacred gesture.

An iPhone remains pointed at guests throughout the exhibition, producing a live condition of surveillance that oscillates between shrine and spectacle.

The table operates simultaneously as stage, archive, and site of correction.

This work treats gesture as political inheritance and infrastructure as memory.


Installation Views, Art Basel, 2025

Structural close-up
Bottled water as load-bearing structure

Colonial residue, monitored

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