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 today’s Bangladesh. A space dedicated to the newest forms of artistic expression. For both artists, the new era also carries opportunities. Zihan Karim’s 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 Saha’s ‘Cheers’, an object made of intimately intricate symbols of the masculine and the feminine. Continuing on the artist’s 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