The Land in Between presents an immersive installation rooted in an unexpected pause. Volunteering in Pangmo, a remote village in the Spiti Valley, the artist arrived to teach at a Buddhist nunnery, only to find the nuns away and the classroom closed. Still welcomed by a few senior nuns and the villagers, he chose to remain with no defined role or purpose. Lodging in a bare room overlooking the village, quietly observing the world beyond he wondered: “what if a classroom isn’t a place with walls and blackboards, but a condition of openness?”
The installation recreates that room as both a physical space and a metaphorical threshold: between cultures, between movement and stillness, between intention and experience.
Viewed from a distance, the room contains a single ‘window’ — blending handycam footage and 35mm film photographs made across the village. The Land in Between becomes a meditation on learning without instruction, and presence shaped not by action, but by attention.
