Line As Witness | Sharmila Samant

In Loca-Cola (2000–ongoing), she collects Coca-Cola bottles from different countries and refills them with locally produced drinks, bringing the global and local into direct confrontation and questioning how multinational brands reshape local economies, tastes and everyday practices. In Chandelier (2011), discarded bottle caps linked with metal shackles form an object at once seductive and unsettling, turning the residue of mass consumption into a symbol of excess, value and constraint.

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