Fragments of the Anthropocene
Month-long group exhibition begins at Bengal Art Lounge
DL reporter
A month-long group exhibition of video-works, installations, paintings and drawings titled Fragments of the Anthropocene by Shimul Saha and Zihan Karim now on display at Bengal Art Lounge, Gulshan in the city. The exhibition jointly inaugurated by Professor Salimullah Khan, Department for General Education, ULAB, and Rafiq Azam, Principal Architect, Shatotto, on January 30 at Art Lounge.
Fragments of the Anthropocene is an exhibition of the works of two daring young artists. It hints at a few pressing issues that will find echoes in todays Bangladesh. A space dedicated to the newest forms of artistic expression. For both artists, the new era also carries opportunities. Zihan Karims meditative video-work Through my Window mixing images of urban and rural environment is an appeasing work which invites the viewer to pause and reflect on what is, and what could be. A sense of hope is also present in Shimul Sahas Cheers, an object made of intimately intricate symbols of the masculine and the feminine. Continuing on the artists long-standing research on gender, the object seems to plead for an Anthropocene in which constructed social boundaries about gender can be decoupled of the biological sexes allocated by nature to the human species.
The exhibition will remain open to all every day from 12pm to 8pm, until February 27.
Bengal Art Lounge: 60 Gulshan Avenue, Circle 1 l
