“No Place to Go” is about a notion of place that has entered a troubled zone. If a place is where life is sustained, even the patches of non-place amidst such a place comes with the potentialities of a place. But what happens when an urban space plunges into unknown chaos? My recent project seeks to delineate such degradation through the images of the urbanites of the usual kind — hard working and underprivileged — who are like transient bands of people. They still seem to make urbanity possible in the face of the daily encounters with an impossible situation in absence of civic amenities, urban structures, and life’s primary discipline.

Statistics says Dhaka is the most stressed city and the 4th most unsafe urban space too. Lack of public transportation, traffic jam, an increase in prices, and overpopulation have rendered the city unbearable for the majority of its people. Dhaka has lost the ‘rhythm’ of the natural public life. In the political realm of parochialism rule over all else, since there are no hopes for cultural regeneration in recent times.

At the one end, there are people who are well off enjoying a good life despite all the incongruity, one the other, a vast majority has entered a dominant cycle of life where a new low appears — as if one can only live a life of a subhuman. My project thus speaks through this new subjectivity — men and women conditioned by their desperate situations — they are part of this situation which is beyond their control.