Ke ba kahara s conceptual performance ‘Fayedabad To-Let’ impresses
Photo: Rasel Chowdhury Ke ba kahara , a diverse and self-organised group of volunteer-researchers, arranged an exhibition titled Fayedabad To-Let , recently. It was supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council in the capital.
The exhibition, presented by Bangladeshi-Australian artist Omar Chowdhury, presented a work of conceptual performance that explored the modernist ideas, activated in society and architecture, from a Bangladesh perspective. The exhibition was organised in accordance with the public health safety guidelines for the ongoing global pandemic.
There is a strain of melancholia that has coursed through the history of modernist architecture and art in Bangladesh that has always intrigued me, shares Omar Chowdhury. The political and cultural implications of importing these processes and aesthetics has been fraught, to say the least. Yet there is a heart-breaking nostalgia and desire there