Sharad Das
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Introduction | This statement talks about my engagement as an artist with my activity. Artistic practice is always related to individual’s feeling, emotion and reality. But a person is not an isolated individual. There are various different aspects that connect me to the entire society. I personally feel that whatever I do turns out to be a social diary of sorts; somehow history, politics, collectivity and plurality inflect my work. In my work, I am consciously and sub-consciously influenced by human feelings, sensibility, existence , philosophy and obsessed with human body, a composition of primeval substance triggering willing and desire. I strongly believe that representation of body in art related with political history, culture, community, economy and the space where he belong . My art works are articulation of my excitement, trauma and obsession in the context of society where human existential realities seem to lose its meaning in the floods of political and social concern. I always try to grasp the ungraspable in my society and the phenomenon through which I arrive at the themes. |
| Interests | I am not biased to any particular media or technique rather I like to be experimental in expressing my ideas and thoughts and sensitive about the materials and object’s own language, values added by the consumer culture and like to transform their identity. What is important to me is how we as locals are generating knowledge through negotiation with global knowledge. The dichotomy of universal-local is always thought provoking for me. My process of arriving at ideas of art work is always through interactions, questions and dialogues with images and symbols. I try to intervene and enforce a new reading of old signs by way of my composite counter texts and source of my elements and ideas from varied media such as film, poetry, theatrical performance, music, newspaper, history, popular images ,local tradition like cinema banner, rickshaw art and local techniques etc. |