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The Fish is Watching, Day & Night x Ardh
2024
Textile
Kalbuh Park Muscat
The Fish is Watching is a textile work created as a backdrop for Ardh, an open-air photo studio conceived by photographer Reem Falaknaz, with its first edition set at Kalbuh Park in Muscat. The textile draws on two figures from the artist's family history: her grandfather, a porter and fisherman tied to the sea, and her grandmother, who traded fabric at Souq Muttrah.
Those two worlds, water and cloth, converge in the piece, which centers a mythical fish-eye motif drawn from Baloch talismanic imagery, a quiet, ever-present witness. Falaknaz used the textile as a backdrop to photograph Muscat's diverse communities, building a living archive of a city's collective presence. The two practices, one object-based and one photographic, meet around the act of witnessing, being seen, and choosing what to preserve.