In a scintillating performance at the Korean Cultural Centre India, Afsana Sharmin Zhumpa – an artist from Bangladesh re-enacted the lost bond between primal and human sources through her performance titled as “Last Breath” on Saturday.
Afsana Sharmin Zhumpa is one of the ten artists and one research collective from Bangladesh whose work has been on display at the exhibition (Dis)Place since December 7 at KCCI. The exhibition will continue till February 22.
Primal elements of the Bengali terrain are celebrated in “Last Breath”, an installation of unmistakable akashmani seeds and drying mud.
The lines she builds across space during her performances, the threads she leaves behind an ephemeral installation, lay the boundaries of complex emotional landscapes.
The exhibitions (Dis)Place exhibits artworks and spatializes archives to inquire about the specifics of that place – the “local”, while also attempts to bring perspective into the very notion of place. Sketching the contours of a place while also discussing what place as an idea might entail: here is the paradox of the project.
It is co-curated by Tanzim Wahab and Hadrien Diez.
(Dis)Place is structured around various areas of contention, each framing questions connected to the general line of inquiry while they also open specific discussions. It touches upon topics as urgent to Bengal and Bangladesh as they are to the world: shifting environments, migration, marginalisation, economic and/or cultural appropriation. The exhibition further discusses related issues of borders and place(s) ownership, and of utopian sensibilities vis-à-vis forced displacements.
On 7th December, Opening ceremony of the (Dis)Place exhibition was held at Baek Nam Jun hall, Korean Cultural Centre India. Korean Cultural Centre India’s Director Kim Kum-Pyoung with curators Tanzim Wahab and Mr. Hadrien Diez inaugurated the exhibition.
(Dis)Place is supported by KCCI through a grant for curatorial proposals ‘from India and other SAARC Countries’. Aiming to think through exhibition practices and to address the notion of the region, the grant was awarded to Bangladesh-based curators Tanzim Wahab and Hadrien Diez.
FICA supported KCCI for the selection process of applications, which was made by a jury comprising Jeebesh Bagchi (artist/curator, Raqs Media Collective), Sonia Khurana (video and performance artist), Junebum Park (video artist and Art Advisor, KCCI), and Vidya Shivadas (Director, FICA).
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