Dhaka Art Summit

Work: No.972
Location: DAS, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date: 2020

This site-specific immersive installation, created for the central staircase of Shilpakala Academy as part of Dhaka Art Summit 2020, consists of thousands of ink fingerprints pressed onto the wall. From a distance, this collection of marks appear as a swarm, creating a sense of movement up and down the staircase; but as one gets closer the impressions left by the human finger become clear. They are markers of human touch - from finger to wall and from one hand to another as the fingerprints overlap with one another and the individual marks create a larger collective mark.