This work is from the Riverscape series. 

Excerpt from Kamala Kapoor, The Art Of Vivan Sundaram, Lustre Press, Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002:

'A part of the Riverscape series, it is a response to an initiative by Cleveland Arts UK, where the artist conveyed the industrial/commercial intimation of a dockside environment along the banks of the River Tees. The distilled unfolding of this sculptural ensemble's changing evocations is at once mysterious and mythic, suggestive of impermanence and decay.'

Exhibition history: ‘Riverscape,’ Four International Artist Residencies, Takashi Ikezawa (Japan), Hanna Luczak (Poland), Graham Crowley (UK) and Vivan Sundaram (India), River Tees, Cleveland, UK, Cleveland Gallery and Middlesborough Art Gallery, 1993, illustrated catalogue. Also shown in ‘Riverscape,’ Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta; Sakshi Gallery, Bombay; British Council Art Gallery, New Delhi; 1994-95.