Cultural Desk : dhakamirror.com
A seven-day group exhibition featuring nine photographers is underway at Mirpur in the capital.
Organised by Visual Arts Centre Counter Foto, the event depicts the July-August student-led mass uprising.
The event was started on December 16 on the Counter Foto campus at Mirpur.
Curated by artist-researcher Faysal Zaman, the exhibition titled Raktim Probahe, Chitra-Chetonay Chobbisher Gana Abhyuthan is displaying artworks of the seventh batch of Counter Foto’s two-year professional diploma programme.
The artworks comprise photographs, installations, dairies during the July-August mass uprising, screenshots, graffiti, newspaper collage and collections from the mass media that intersect with dominant structures of political ideology and collective consciousness.
The artworks depict the condition of the people as they roared and celebrated during the mass-uprising while depicting at the same time their psychological scars and trauma from violence.
The exhibition features artworks of Md Nusaer Bin Khaled Nitol, Mohammad Sakiful Islam, Syed Samiul Islam Bishal, Nowrin Ansari, Najmul Haque Sagor, Sudiptto Paul, Tamanna Meherun, Khaza Moinuddin and Syed Mehedy Hasan.
‘The exhibition questions oscillating responses within virtual and mass media spheres, personal encounters that transmute into diaristic narratives, and the articulation of August 5, the day the fascist leader was toppled,’ said Faysal Zaman.
The exhibition will end on Sunday.
