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GBB at Here Today in London

GBB participates at "Here Today" in London with the installation "Listen to the Sound of the lost Sea" of GBB artist Sayyora Muin.

Sayyora Muin’s poignant work bids farewell to the now desiccated Aral Sea, and to the surrounding communities that once flourished in her native Uzbekistan. The sea was the world’s fourth largest saline lake until the 1960s, when the two rivers that fed it were diverted to promote agriculture. Muin pays respect to those whose towns were subsequently transformed into a salt desert.

A circle of women support each other as they silently say goodbye to the lives and places they once knew. Their traditional dress attests to Muin’s previous work in costume design, while the salt around them evokes the loss of the Aral Sea.