Bangladesh in Venice 2011
1st participation of Bangladesh at the Venice Biennale 2011. Exhibition Parables, Fondazione Gervasuti.
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Echoed Moments in time. 2011
Digital prints
He appropriates enigmatic 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War photographs of real soldiers and civilians alike. The iconic images provided him with a rich seam of authentic material of well-known photojournalists such as Robin Sengupta, Abdul Hamid and Rashidul Talukdar. (…) In this age of digital reproduction, the artist opens up the self to multiplicity, intervening a similar trope of meticulously putting himself in each image and rearticulating an accumulation of history as a support for collective memory of post-war experience.
Ayesha Sultana, exhibition catalogue
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
1st participation of Bangladesh at the Venice Biennale 2011. Exhibition Parables, Fondazione Gervasuti.