Submerged

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Artist: Saberah Malik

Title: Submerged

Attribution: Submerged. 2025. Saberah Malik.

Year: 2025

Materials: Mirrors, embroidery floss

Dimensions: 26" H x 57" W

Image Statement: Placing mirrors in pixelated proximity without embroidered fillers is typical of the Rabari and Banjara nomadic tribes that had once roamed the lower riparian Indus River Valley. Ancient civilizations in the region, like Mohenjo Daro, had traded with mirror producing Egyptians, making use of mirror, shell and stone embellishments likely. There is no record of Mohenjo Daro population’s fate, but could these tribes be their off shoots, carrying evolutionary, genetically embedded memories of water in their craft?