The Animals, The Bodies and Coefficient of Time, 2025

In The Animals, The Bodies, and Coefficient of Time, a series of soft sculptures constructed from fish scales evoking the exterior and interior contours of migrant and temporary worker accommodations in India and UAE. Their forms are also shaped by furniture arrangements, architecture and displays observed in the fish and meat market. These structures are the result of repeated visits to markets and conversations with market workers about their relationships to their labor and to non-humans as meat. The forms register the physicality of the market and the work of butchering, scaling, cleaning and layering, while also invoking olfactory memory—the persistent smell of fish and meat.