A multi-layered installation bridges storytelling, archival footage, and community memory of damming, connecting Queenstown and Waduk Gajah Mungkur (Indonesia) through the exploration of displacement, resilience, and geography. Featuring semi-transparent fabric screens with moving images, the spaces invite local participation through shared stories and a nongkrong session—an Indonesian ritual of informal gathering. The work fosters cross-cultural connection, inviting you into a reflective, communal experience across time and place.

As the waters of the Gajah Mungkur Reservoir recede each dry season, remnants of submerged villages reappear—foundations, personal objects, and old stone graveyards revealing traces of lives displaced by state development. What Water Could Remember explores the fragile negotiation between memory, survival, and erasure in this shifting landscape. Through layered transparent fabrics and projections, the installation reflects on how history surfaces and submerges, evoking unresolved narratives that linger beneath the visible.