In 2022, the Leaky Archive digital fellowship shared RJM’s South Asian colonial photography collection lists with me. I investigated the fifty-four images sourced from Rangamati, Bangladesh, in 1927 from this large number of images. The photographs were taken and collected
Fellowship
2022-2023
Dead space brought me here years ago! Your future, the future of our race, terminates here. A strange sensation calls me to an unconscious vision a panorama of devastation seen through the small aperture of my apartment. This city birthed
Fellowship
2022
At Documenta Fifteen in Kassel, Germany, I participated as both artist and researcher under the Britto Research Grant, with dedicated guidance from Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman. My contributions formed part of Britto Arts Trust’s installation—a complex, multi-layered examination
Exhibition
2022
I got selected for Britto Research Grant 2021-22, which will focus on a publication grounded on year-long process-based activities towards the world’s prestigious Docuemnta15 at Kassel, Germany, from June 18 to September 25, 2022. In this book’s publication project, I
Fellowship
2021-2022
Along with the architectural team, I took responsibility of the art curation part. I have worked with Five regional artists, Tapan Das, D.C. Das, Abdur Rob, Chandan Sarkar, and Hamid Bhuiyan. In our design planning we tried to represent the
Design Award
2022
Public art exhibition curation project titled “The Fearless Call” will feature unique art installations by 12 young Bangladeshi artists. Eleven artists from diverse creative backgrounds, including architects, illustrators, painters, filmmakers, writers, and researchers, collaborated on Fearless Call episode III. Meet
Exhibition Curation
2024
I directed the independent, feature-length documentary Mangal Shobhajatra: A Celebration of Resilience for the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka. This experimental film captures the Mangal Shobhajatra procession—a vibrant, large-scale public art performance held at dawn on
Film Making
2016-2018
How can we understand the mechanics of the metropolis? Is it even worth understanding if the camera obscure device only captures the slow decay of modern chaos? Or is it about fining a balance with hope whilst being “trapped” in
Exhibition
2018
In collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre (RCMC) is a culturally immersive installation designed to provide audiences with an intimate encounter with the artefacts and narratives of the Rohingya community. Initially developed by
Exhibition Curation
2023
Art curation and concept design project with Loud Workds for Beximco Pharmaceuticals in 2021. This art installation pays tribute to those who toil away to create treasures. It is made up of the unique fingerprints from 1300 employees. Each individual
Art Curation
2021
The JTI Tongi Manufacturing Factory art curation project involved incorporating visual art communication of the world-leading cigarette brand into their new office space in Dhaka. Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is a significant foreign investor in Bangladesh’s economy, aiming to establish
Art Curation
2020
In 2019, I was commissioned for art curation projects for the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). My primary challenge was to move away from traditional, decorative art methods and address the impact of mechanical reproduction on visual art, often overlooked in
Art Curation
2019-2020
Assistant Curator & Artist for the “News Food” exhibition at the National Museum, curated by Wakilur Rahman. The exhibition showcased the fifteen-year evolution of the “Prothom Alo” newspaper using both digital and analog visual and textual archives.In 2013, I served
Exhbition Curation
2013