Three channel video installation with sound (synchronize)
2021/2022
''Language is Migrant'' Warehouse 421 at Abu Dhabi, Colombo, 2022, Image Courtesy of Warehouse42, Abu Dhabi
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''Language is Migrant'' Colomboscope, Rio Complex, Colombo, 2022 Photo Credit: Shehan Obeysekara
I examined my personal experiences with political and cultural history in this work in Link Road, my spoken dialect, which arose from the confluence of numerous historical and geographical flows on the river Karnaphuli, which runs through Chattogram. Within the confines of language and water, efforts are made to imagine existences that are close, distant, marginal, and unknown, depending on recollected pieces and detached affirmations of my childhood viewpoints. The work is influenced by familial and friendship bonds defined via personal and spiritual attachments to the river and language, prevalent in marginal and coastal life along the India-Myanmar border. A riverboat adrift and fragmentary recollections of coming to terms with "otherness" as something that dwells within the self, not beyond, are paired with linguistic and identity meanderings. Except for the middle video, I used single-shot videos from a single boat without being controlled by the boatman. The middle one, which includes voice-over, is also a single-shot video but takes a different schedule.
Chobimela 2021, ''Anatomies of Tongues'' Curated by Anushka Rajendran, Dhaka, Image credit MD FARHAD RAHMAN
