Palash Bhattacharjee: Don't Sit Here...

Friday, December 25, 2015

Don't Sit Here...

Double Channel Video
Show: Unfold, Cheragi Art Show edition 4, Curated by Zihan Karim, 2015
Cheragi Lane, Chittagong, Bangladesh

This is a small place under construction and new-constructed. This double channel video derived from the realization of those conjectures. Here, one of those videos is comprised of the busy shops of Cheragi Circle and small walls in front of the Press Office and the other one is presented with the pictures of the broken walls. Beside this, the nasal sound of my voice uttering 'না...'(Bengali pronounced 'Naa' means No) has been added in the background of the two videos.

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Don't Sit Here... from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Don’t Sit Here… from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

'Palash Bhattacharjee entered the scene armed with an array of performative arsenals. Alongside photo-video installations developed from his performances and site-specific installations, he inserted another crucial element, namely sound. From his early works based on photo and video installations in 2009 to that of his more recent near-absurd performances and video installations, he articulates the neural through the experiential. Since 2011, he set in motion a practice that forked into two divergent and also overlapping strands – video and performance. His single or multi-channel videos and performances are the result of his meditations on body's communion with spatial reality often set in a temporal framework. His reorganizes multiple approaches as he sets out to restore an event from life, which is at once overwhelming and abstract. Muted and distant in their articulation, his works seem to test the water at the edge. Still, Palash's 'reality' leaves no room for illusion.'

-New Media the locus of rebirth, Shahman Moishan with Sharmillie Rahman and Mustafa Zaman, page 36-37, 22th Issue, Depart Magazine, ISSN 2310-6832