Fehmida Chipty

In Duality, I explore how the spaces we move through - physical, emotional, and imagined - hold traces of both who we are and who we are becoming. The images in this series begin with scenes from Morocco: pathways, arches, portals, and facades that carry a palpable sense of place. Though captured in the contemporary moment, these structures retain the resonance of history and continuity.

Onto these foundations, I layer contemporary abstract architectural forms in shifting opacities. These translucent interventions introduce motion, permeability, and emergence. The dialogue between these layers - solidity and transparency, permanence and change, clarity and ambiguity - creates a visual space where past and possibility coexist.

These images function as thresholds - spaces where what is familiar meets what is still unfolding. The Moroccan elements anchor the viewer in place and time, while the contemporary overlays open a liminal zone where boundaries become porous and new meanings take shape.

Within these layered spaces, one can sense the reverberations between inner and outer worlds, and the ways in which our journeys are shaped as much by what lies beneath as by what lies ahead.

I invite you to inhabit these thresholds - not to choose between histories or futures, but to feel their conversation. Duality, in this sense, is not a fracture but a form of continuity - a reminder that multiple layers of experince coexist, shaping who we are and who we are becoming.”