2026Lacquered mild-steel sculpture, two-channel audio (3 minutes each)Sculpture 1: 4.8 × 2 × 2.1 metres; Sculpture 2: 3.6 × 8.1 × 1.7 metres

Reena Saini Kallat’s multidisciplinary practice explores borders, memory, migration, and ecological interdependence through works that connect personal histories with broader social and environmental questions. Thresholds: Requiem (The Last Call) (2026) reimagines twentieth-century acoustic locators, once designed to detect distant aircraft, as vessels for the calls of extinct and critically endangered bird species. Situated within Al Qattara Oasis, part of Al Ain’s UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape, the installation transforms a surveillance device into an act of listening, reflecting on ecological memory, loss, and our shared responsibility to care for the environments we call home. The work evokes the fragile threshold between survival and extinction, recalling what has already been lost while drawing attention to lives that may yet be protected.