At the Edge of Home is an ongoing series of photographs, sculptures, and collages created in Makardah, a village on the outskirts of Kolkata. The series reflects on the disruptions of modernity within a landscape that evokes a sense of belonging to a home the artist has never truly known.

 

Inspired by the film Ghare Baire (The Home and the World), the work navigates the enduring conflict between modern influences and the echoes of a Swadeshi dream. The environment of Makardah resonates with stories my grandmother told

me about the way home used to be, contrasting deeply with my upbringing in the concrete sprawl of Delhi. To explore this connection, I reclaimed discarded Bengali newspapers—a language that is my mother tongue but one I cannot read. Through this act, I attempt to create a sense of familiarity, searching for my place in a home I never knew

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I see my work growing into a series of images that creates a future archive of my home back in Bangladesh, one I only know about through the car journeys as a child. I am keen to explore what does it mean to build a visual archive when it exists solely in memory? Through my work attempt to recreate fragments of home from the faint memories passed down.

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