The 3rd solo painting exhibition of artist Md Abdul Guffar Babu titled ‘Pixel of Emotion’ is underway at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD), Dhanmondi in the capital.

The inaugural ceremony of the two-week exhibition was held on Friday on the gallery premises, where the chairman of Gallery Cosmos and Cosmos- Atelier 71 Enayetullah Khan was present as chief guest.

Professor Abul BarqAlvi, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka was present as the guest of honour during the opening ceremony.

Emotion can be defined as an intellectual activity of the human psychology or a particular degree of expression reflecting pleasure or dissatisfaction. Emotion is complex. It changes due to the physical and mental states of every human being. Some theories posit emotion as a syndrome of elements that includes motivation, feeling, behaviour, and physiological changes — but the emotion’s definition remains so vast as to be almost intangible.

Interestingly, art is a medium to express emotion in the form of pictorial depictions that are widely used and accepted. The artist tries to reflect in his canvas the emotional changes people go through in their daily lives due to socioeconomic and political conditions and hardships. Md Abdul GuffarBabu believes these ‘frames’ may somewhat express emotion in the breadth of its definition.

The exhibition remains open to all until February 22 and can be visited according to the following schedule: Monday to Thursday from 3 pm to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday (9 am to 12 noon and 5 pm to 8 pm); closed on Sunday.

AFD: 26 Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi