Two-channel video
Duration: 43:29 min
Come What May begins with an ordinary journey: the walk from home to the studio. Set within the dense and restless rhythms of Dhaka, the work reflects on how the city quietly reshapes the rules meant to organize it. Sidewalks frequently disappear beneath temporary shops, construction materials, and ongoing roadwork, prompting pedestrians to improvise their own paths through traffic and the street.
The film unfolds through a simple experiment carried out on two consecutive afternoons at the same hour. On one day, the artist walks the route from home to the studio following the intuitive patterns of everyday movement—taking shortcuts, crossing where possible, and adapting to the conditions of the street. On the other day, the same journey is repeated while strictly adhering to pedestrian rules and designated pathways.
Presented as a two-channel video, the work places these parallel journeys side by side. The dual structure allows the viewer to observe the temporal and spatial differences between regulated movement and everyday improvisation. Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the film operates through repetition and duration, where walking becomes a quiet measure of the city’s contradictions.
Within this simple act of movement, the work reflects on how urban life continually negotiates between formal systems and lived realities.
