Maria

MV Kota Tenjong was the first ship to be beached at Alang in 1983 and since then more than 7000 ships have been broken. Before shipbreaking began in Alang, the beach was untouched and pristine, but for the migrant work force and the locals, shipbreaking provides well-paid jobs with a steady income.A retired vessel has spaces that seem to have frozen in time. The sentiments and stories attached to the ship scatter as the structure is taken apart. The spaces and objects evoke a strange sense of nostalgia which doesn’t belong to the witness, yet seems to have come from their own memories. Maria is a story of reincarnation on land what water held like its own.

Alang, Bhavnagar & Baroda, Gujarat