Lavanya Gupta

"In Between the Places I call Home"

Section MS15, Sarah Akigbogun

Keywords: in-betweenness, belonging, migration, photography

In Between the Places I Call Home is a photographic installation explor ing belonging and migration as ongoing, unresolved conditions. The work presents a series of diptychs pairing images from Delhi and London, held side by side to keep two geographies in parallel. Printed on translucent gateway sheets, the photographs are disrupted by accidental printing errors, where ink spills and bleeds cause images to merge and become partially unclear. These material distortions mirror the instability of memory and identity across places. Rather than correcting the images, the work embraces ambiguity and dissonance, proposing the in-between as a critical space. Home is framed not as a fixed location, but as a layered, shifting experience shaped by movement, overlap, and return.