The ongoing six-day art exhibition, organised by Britto Art Trust, generates awareness on the impact of deforestation in the country through installations by 18 artists and a photographer.
The exhibition is an outcome of a four-day workshop, which was held in Dohar under Dhaka district in which 15 local and two Dutch artists participated. Nature photographer Enam Ul Haque also participated in the workshop.
Eighteen installations feature different aspects of deforestations through the images of trees.
Highlighting the popular ‘green development’, Ashim Halder Sagor has created an innovative structure like a tree using materials of computer, mobile mother boards and circuits while Shulekha Choudhury has made a tree using charcoal.
Small colouful plastic cups hanging with branches of a tree made of bamboo sticks and canes represent a flowering tree at Md. Sohel Rana’s artwork.
Kamruzzaman Shadhin has used real trees for his artwork. He has made a frame using bamboo sticks and has installed small plants in different shelves of the frame.
The cry for greenery in the realm of urbanisation has been depicted in Khandakar Nasir Ahmed’s artwork, where Nasir has created a sphere with barbwire and has implanted a little plant into the centre of the sphere.
Dutch artist Maria Verstappen’s video installation, Drowning Tree, features decay of a tree image by air and water that she drew on the sands by the river Turag.
Enam Ul Haque’s photography of trees of the largest mangrove forest Sudarban added extra flovour to the exhibition.
Maharunnesa Nipa, Shyamal Chandra Sarkar, Shimul Saha, Mahadi Masud, Tahmina Hafiz Lisa, Pulak Das, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Imran Hossain Piplu, Dutch artist Frank Bruggeman, among others are participating in the exhibition.
Beginning on August 5, the exhibition will remain open for everybody from 3:00 to 8:00pm till August 11.
-With New Age input
