Five channel video installation, 2018
Seven minutes loop
Samdani Art Award Exhibition, Dhaka Art Summit 2018, Production supported by Samdani Art Foundation.
Curated by Simon Castets
In this work, the idea of the search for knowledge is overlapped with that of the educational exercises that we are habituated to accept as our only means to become educated. In order to unsettle this concept of the ‘ideal method’, the work re-arranges the books to critique the established notion of knowledge dissemination and reception which is tied to the colonial legacy. These specimens underline some of the misrepresentations developed under the colonial gaze.
Here, academic, Intermediate-level and Gradute-lable books of grammar, literature, math and some journals are used to demonstrate the shady regions of the colonial education system. The video work has done on the inspiration of naivety of some reading experiences of my childhood. The first video show the pages of the books are being flipped, the second video shows books are being read, the third one shows books are being torn, circles are being inscribed into their pages besides the final act of stapling them.
Text edited by Mustafa Zaman
Sample of five channel video work
Compose from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.
Video still
Seven minutes loop
Samdani Art Award Exhibition, Dhaka Art Summit 2018, Production supported by Samdani Art Foundation.
Curated by Simon Castets
 Image from Samdani Art Award Exhibition, Dhaka Art Summit 2018, National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy |
In this work, the idea of the search for knowledge is overlapped with that of the educational exercises that we are habituated to accept as our only means to become educated. In order to unsettle this concept of the ‘ideal method’, the work re-arranges the books to critique the established notion of knowledge dissemination and reception which is tied to the colonial legacy. These specimens underline some of the misrepresentations developed under the colonial gaze.
Here, academic, Intermediate-level and Gradute-lable books of grammar, literature, math and some journals are used to demonstrate the shady regions of the colonial education system. The video work has done on the inspiration of naivety of some reading experiences of my childhood. The first video show the pages of the books are being flipped, the second video shows books are being read, the third one shows books are being torn, circles are being inscribed into their pages besides the final act of stapling them.
Text edited by Mustafa Zaman
Sample of five channel video work
Compose from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.
Video still
