Three channel video installation
18th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh
National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, 2018
This work brings into play a sense of disruption about the way we are fed news, views and ideology in the guise of knowledge in the mediated world by examining the condition of the body in connection with the narratives or textual matters. There are three types of performance in relation to Bangla newspapers that I have developed and finally showcased in three separate channels. This video installation takes its point of departure from a single event, to make an attempt to carry out a postmortem of sort in metaphorical term to elicit some truths about the event. The result is the distribution of the theme into sub-themes. I break it down to many different responses -- The first one shows erasing the texts from the newspapers using a blade, the second one shows newspapers soaked in water and the last one shows hammering the nails on the newspapers.
Text edited by Mustafa Zaman
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18th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh
National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, 2018
Text edited by Mustafa Zaman
Special Feature from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.
