These ‘on-site monoprints’ are created within buildings deemed for demolition in the UAE. Divecha turns the interiors of emptied out apartments into his print workshop. The process begins with the application of viscous printmaking ink on a wall section. A thick paper is placed upon the inked area, after which Divecha extensively rubs the back of the sheet with a roller until the texture of the wall surface is transferred in ink. The ink bleeds over the edges suggesting the print is an extract of the wall.

Urban structures and their inhabitants are transient subjects in the UAE - consumed and forgotten in the state’s drive to reinvent itself. Architectural histories get constantly erased while tenants get displaced. By indexing these walls, Divecha endeavours to preserve a trace of these spaces before they are lost forever. The opaque ink captures a ghostly presence of the interior lives surrounded by these walls. Like many of his past projects, here too Divecha archives a material history of the UAE. In these prints he draws attention to the modernist buildings of the 1970s along Sharjah’s Bank Street that will be torn down to create a historic district.