Can an art exhibition take in a wetland walk? Or a conversation with a forest god? That’s the kind of expansionist vision Ginwala brings to curating. ‘Dense, multi-sensory, and rhizomatic, it speaks through entanglements and intersections’ – this was e-flux Criticism’s assessment of Colomboscope, the festival Ginwala has directed in Sri Lanka since 2019. With curators Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung and Sarker Protick, this year’s iteration took nature, ecofeminism and Indigeneity as its themes and soon spread beyond the gallery. It is, Ginwala said, a ‘perspective that rises beyond the geopolitical fragmentations that our part of the world faces’. Such an approach will likely be detected in the section she is curating at the Sharjah Biennial in February (she is one of a five-strong team of curators). Ginwala has said ‘the ancient stepwells in Indian Ocean littoral sites and water wells found in Sharjah’s historic households and courtyards’ will serve as her personal leitmotifs, ones ‘that avow ancestral memory, place-making, sonic remembrance and cross-generational convening amidst tides of annihilation’.