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17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016 

Tête-à-tête with young women Bangladeshi artists

Published : Thursday, 5 January, 2017 at 12:00 AM  Count : 1103
Nazmun Naher Shishir
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What does it take to be a woman as well as an artist? How does it feel to portray a rape victim in the canvas? What does the study-break for marriage of an artist take from life? How does life-hacked disease: Uvitise shed on an artist's artwork? How do the good and the evil binaries of life teach a woman not to be judgemental human being? All these self epiphanies about a woman's journey over time of their lives have been portrayed in their canvas by these young artists --- Taslima Azam Shefa, Rawshan Nazm, Afiea Abida Sultana, and Atiqun Nahar Joti and are exhibited in the 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016.
Young women artists of the country---talks of Nature and women, complicacies of urban life for women, art and culture for women, predicaments in individual choice of a woman, societal issues and human rights at present provokes art or not.   
Rawshan Nazm
"At present trying to become what an artist wants to be or to do, what s/he feels is a small and large endeavour to express the self to people. Through this the reality of an artist's life can be understood," says Rawshan Nazm while talking about her struggle of suffering from Uvitise disease.
As she has suffered from blindness for almost half a year and had study break because of marriage and pregnancy, she suffered the block. "The attachment with one's work lacks when one takes break in between practice. Women in our society stuck with their in-laws and households after marriage and somewhere she forgets about her life and work. With time she loses herself," adds Rawshan.  
Being an art teacher of South Point School and College Nazm found herself fortunate enough as her teachers: Professor Md Iqbal and Professor Shishir Bhattachariya from the Drawing and painting Department, Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka has been a constant encouragement for continuing her practice. Nazm did not forget the height of encouragement she got from her husband: Sheikh Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Assistant Professor, Print Making, Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.
Being very introvert Nazm has portrayed all her struggle in the canvas of "Me & My Objective World". "People cry and feel lightened and then dive into works again, similarly expressing myself through my artwork gives me relief. As an outcome of that I've tried to express myself through various artworks related to family life."
Afiea Abida Sultana
Spending all her childhood and adolescence in Jessore Afiea Abida Sultana got the inspiration to join the Drawing and Painting Department, faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University from the maestro S.M Sultan. Currently working as an art teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School, Afiea loves to teach art and spread the beauty of art among children. "Children are like clay. I believe any form of art can make a child a better human being".  
Never forgettable inspiration of artist Kamal Uddin taught her to never look back. Interest for realistic painting makes her choose the glass bottle as a painting object. "I believe this is the best medium to see the beauty of transparency. When the sunlight falls on the glass, it looks very beautiful and attractive to me. It helps me express my feelings and thoughts through the bottle in different colourful ways."
"Complexity 1", is my experience of everyday newspaper. We see our unexpected social occurrences very clearly through our social media. That's why I use this newspaper cutting (social occurrence) as a bottle label in my painting. Incident of Tonu, Rajon and many more affected my mind badly which I expressed on my canvas through the broken glasses later on."
Taslima Azam Shefa
Passion for painting and mesmerizing colour brings Taslima Azam Shefa to the department of Drawing & Painting from Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka and motivates to become a fashion designer of 'Tajhushir'. Shefa said, "Painting is my soul and I express me and my experiences in the canvas."
"Good &Evil Mind" is the series of Shefa's artwork through this she is trying to portray the balance of human character. "When I look at myself most of the time I see the two side of my character. The good and the bad one. But I do not think it's all about being good or bad, there are other gray things in between. Maybe that balances all the characters. Similarly, I think that every people out there have something to balance their own characters other than these binaries. So, we should not be judgemental about others and about us as well."
In her painting she divided the canvas in two colours red and gray. Colour red stands for bad and gray for good. "I used the prohibit symbols on red to present the evil things and place symbol on gray to present good things." For knowing own self better or she only knows her better Shefa has portrayed herself in canvas to show the binary.
The symbol of white rose as purity in evil she portrayed to show some positivity might exist in evil mind and black rose in good section as evil--- there might be some evil in a good heart as well."
Atiqun Nahar Joti
"I always try to make a connection between Nature and women. Multipurpose beauty, diversity, seasonal changes, aggressive movement, gain, loss and many more I found in the nature. I think that each woman has these features as well", said Atiqun Nahar Joti, the artist of "Girls Fantasy".
Studed in department of Drawing and Painting from Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka Joti loves to explain different part of the body of a woman familiar with her own organic form. Hibiscus flower is one of the symbols. "My own identity is always reflective in my painting."
To celebrate the beauty-mind of a girl and the femininity of a woman feminine is a thing to celebrate to Joti. "It gives me satisfaction and creates my own identity in my painting", said Joti --- currently working as art teacher in Bangladesh International Tutorial.  
All these women celebrate the femininity and plans to continue as a devotee of art and as painter. They conclude being agreed, "As a woman no path is easy but the struggle has its individual form. Struggle can make a woman more strong then before but patience while struggling is a must thing. Thus, one would be able to enjoy the sunshine."


17th Asian Art Biannale Bangladesh


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