Setting suns and ambient music are a classic combination on Youtube.

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They're fan-fiction music videos made with drifting skies.

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Roshanak Amini and Juniper Foam have created two video installations that learn from this phenomenon and push beyond the surface-level beauty into a world full of real, socio-political undercurrents that are hiding in plain sight.

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"Staring at the Sun" and "Wherever I Am, the Sky Is Mine" speak the language of remix culture and smooth astral jazz, but they create a space that belongs to the emerging genre of Future Lofi.

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The rhythmic flow of the inhabitants leaving from and returning to the “illegal settlement”, Karail, through a small gravel pathway that appears on the body of water which divides the two worlds, is a sign that nothing remains isolated: that these two worlds, Karail and the rest of Dhaka, seep into one another, into every aspect of “the other’s” everyday life.

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The merchandise moves into and out of these two spaces.

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The labor force which builds and serves those living in the “legal” parts of Dhaka comes from these settlements.

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While the flow is constant throughout the day, it escalates during sunrise and sunset.

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What is captured here in these videos is the ever-present permeability of Karail.

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@juniperfoam @roschanakam

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