This project is a part of Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Artist in Residency program 2026.

This project, “অপরেখা: LIMINALITY,” explores the cultural and architectural concept of liminality by  examining the spaces between the transient and the permanent. Focusing on the slums of Sat-Tola and Korail in Bangladesh and the bunkers of Switzerland, it compares two environments that originated as temporary responses to the crisis but have since become permanent fixtures. Though shaped by different socio-political contexts, both spaces reflect resilience, survival, and the complex negotiation between state and identity. By analyzing these liminal structures, the research investigates how nations construct identity in response to crisis and how such spaces reveal an evolving national identity. The project materializes these ideas through a site-specific installation of layered walls, embodying the tension between the fragility of slums and the permanence of bunkers.