Cultural Desk : dhakamirror.com
A six-day group print exhibition depicting the complicated significance of the Buriganga River is under way at Alliance Française de Dhaka.
Organised by the Dhaka University printmaking department, the exhibition titled Downward’s Surface is displaying more than a hundred artworks created by 23 fourth-year bachelor’s and master’s students of the department.
The exhibition is an outcome of a 10-day intertwining diverse printmaking technique workshop, conducted by Julia Lebrao Sendra Belgium-based artist and assistant professor of La Cambre, a renowned visual arts school.
The workshop was held from October 28 to November 6 at Dhaka University.
Through the complex images and its vivid colours, the artworks emanate a poignant cry for awareness—silent yet powerful, Julia Lebrao Sendra said, adding, ‘By illuminating the river’s beauty and fragility, we hope to awaken.’
By using woodcut, lithography and etching techniques, the artists experimented by overlapping these techniques in an image to create rich textures and vibrant colours at the workshop.
The artworks depict myths, memories and lives of those who inhabit the banks of the River Buriganga with Deleuzian philosophy of surface.
The exhibition, curated by the lecturer of the department, Abdullah Al Bashir, features the artists including Abu Al Naeem, Derril Audri Roy, Fahim Khan Tameem, Jahra Najifa, Miftahul Zannat Naberi and Pinak Chandra Das.
The exhibition was inaugurated by the DU faculty of fine art dean, Azharul Islam Sheikh, on November 14 and it will conclude on Tuesday.
