The price of progress

One of the biggest challenges for developing countries is overpopulation. Governments often fail to provide sufficient facilities and all the necessary rights for a large number of people. Consequently, low-income families engage their younger members in the workforce to supplement their household income. However, sadly, even in hazardous workplaces, the necessary safety measures are not properly ensured.

Membrane

The work is an act of self-portraiture, a photograph of the body in front of a canvas painted with the artist’s own artworks.The body, placed at the center, blends with the background, as if wishing to dissolve, to be lost in the very surface it created. The photograph documents a moment in which the boundary between the artist and the art is no longer discernible.