Closed Door

Double-channel video with LED neon text and six pieces of archival prints (counter gaze of the video), 2023

Duration of video: Three minute thirty four second

Solo Exhibition: Of Fragments

Curated by Sharmillie Rahman
Kalakendra, Lalmatia, Dhaka

‘Palash watches from within the protective bounds of the walls the tumultuous storm raging outside, reminiscent of lives being whisked away, displaced by the wind of change. In contrast, the interior reverberates with images and sounds emanating from a screen, part of an odiously calculated performance gaslighting a populace into squeamish submission. Counteracting which is another irreverent act of scratching and deflating a balloon, echoing the futility of any subversive act under the regime of control and surveillance, thus ‘exposing’ our ‘edges’ of vulnerability.’

- Sharmillie Rahman 

  

Closed Door, double-channel video with LED neon text 

 

Closed Door six pieces of archival prints (counter gaze of the video), each print size: 10 X 6.5 in on paper, solo exhibition 'Of Fragments', Kalakendra, Dhaka, 2023 

Closed Door, double-channel video with LED neon text 

 Photo courtesy: Sheik Nafi Hassan

Closed Door, video still