Land Shift  2015-2017

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Back in my country (India), there have been huge political changes in the past two years. The State I live in, split into two and therefore the need for a new capital city has drastically changed the fate of its land. In the span of a year, stretches of agricultural land have transformed into residential, urban plots. This ‘shift’ that was taking place around me was both unsettling and intriguing. I suddenly realised how ‘land’ itself was in a state of constant flux — the encroachment, displacement, dislocation and the bereavement of its identity . In the long term, even the architecture that was coming into these spaces was not going to be a permanent fixture. With the ephemeral urbanity and architecture’s utopian fallacy, it felt like ‘land’ itself was in a ‘continual transit’. My current body of work focuses extensively on amplifying this unsettling yet very existent relationship between land and architecture. 

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