Gigi Scaria
Chronicles of the Shores Foretold, 2014
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Chronicles of the Shores Foretold is a site-specific work by Gigi Scaria in which a giant elevated bell on the shore spouts water from the backwaters nearby. According to Gigi,...
Chronicles of the Shores Foretold is a site-specific work by Gigi Scaria in which a giant elevated bell on the shore spouts water from the backwaters nearby. According to Gigi, the bell has universal significance as a marker of time and mortality, but is also symbolically important for Kerala’s Christian population, their rituals and folklores. By puncturing this cherished symbol with holes, Scaria seeks to symbolically puncture cultural time and memory