This 80-foot-long site-specific installation that unfolds as a fine strip of abstract visuals running midway along a corridor wall. Created after more than one year of experience in Varanasi, the work moves beyond documentary observation, offering a deeply personal reflection on Sarkar’s perception of space, time, and his surroundings.
At its core, Kshitij meditates on the impossibility of fully grasping any singular reality all at once. Instead, it embraces the fragmentary nature of experience—where fragments hint at, and momentarily reveal, a greater, elusive whole. The artist confronts the viewer with this condition through a series of six photographs captured in Varanasi, divided between day and night. The daytime images evoke fire (the ritual burning of bodies), water (the flow and continuity of life), and land at sunrise (the beginning of life). Their nighttime counterparts reflect the same elements under a different light, emphasizing the city’s perpetual cycle—life, death, and rebirth.
To echo this cyclical and multifaceted experience, Sarkar deconstructs each photograph into horizontal strips and mounts them in a continuous line along the corridor, aligned with the architectural form of the space. This gesture both fragments the original images and re-contextualizes the corridor itself as both medium and metaphor—a canvas that embodies urban complexity and layered perception.
