Sunday, January 1, 2023

ID

LED neon and two-channel video installation with sound
19th Asian Art Biennale, National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 
Materials: LED neon , red carpet, wooden frame and two TV





I developed a self-examined method for this work based on my everyday encounters with social and national identification and verification. Here, two words in Bengali 'দরকারি কাগজপত্র' and the words translated into English, 'Documents Required,'  are shown in the center of the wall in LED neon to show the tendency toward verification. The opposite of those texts is a red carpet on the floor, followed by two videos on two TV sets, both responding to the central texts, with one video showing typing letters and the other showing blurry fingerprints.

Photo Courtesy: Sheik Nafi Hassan

Video sample