With a decade long involvement with global water politics as well as water crisis, articulating these concerns aesthetically, Aarti Zaveri, has created a site specific installation. This installation titled ’The Cry of Kali River: Do You Care?’. Aarti Zaveri uses Covid vaccine bottles to create site specific installation which represents freedom, hope and cure from the pandemic. The sight of vaccine bottles also reminds us of the dark days which we all have experienced, bring out emotion of life and destruction.

The vaccine bottles also represent the determination of mankind to cure or find solution to any problem. Aarti Zaveri questions this determination by asking us, why we don’t have the same grit to cure or purify rivers that we have polluted.

Aarti Zaveri collected toxic and polluted black water from the Kali river to fill the bottles. The red water is coloured using ingredients that represents pure and and pious objects: kumkum which is made out of saffron and turmeric.

Aarti Zaveri uses these covid vaccine bottles as a base material to create a yantra structure. Yantras are used in many part of ancient India to pass positive energy and understanding.