Land Shift 2015-2017
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.
All this for one better viewwood, ceramic and moss, 78 x 150 x 125 cm & 100 x 90 x 35 cm | Someplace elsedigital acetate print on window, 21 x 29 cm | For all that is at stakeceramic tiles, wood, rubber, soil and digital print mounted onto steel sheet, 152 x 155 x 25 cm |
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For all that is at stake (detail)ceramic tiles, wood, rubber, soil and digital print mounted onto steel sheet, 152 x 155 x 25 cm | Left on the edge (detail)wood and metal, 60 x 50 x 110 cm | As if it were this simpleceramic tiles, concrete, metal and digital print on paper, 32 x 40 x 125 cm |
As if it were this simple (detail)ceramic tiles, concrete, metal and digital print on paper, 32 x 40 x 125 cm | Land Shift Iwood, ceramic, concrete and wooden palette, 70 x 50 x 45 cm | Land Shift IIwood, metal, ceramic and digital print mounted onto steel sheet |
Land Shift IIwood, metal, ceramic and digital print mounted onto steel sheet | Land Shift II (detail)wood, metal, ceramic and digital print mounted onto steel sheet | Land Shift II (detail)wood, metal, ceramic and digital print mounted onto steel sheet |
Blank plotsAcrylic on wooden panels, 125 x 77 cm | Familiar territoriesOil on wood 25 x 32 cm x 3 |