Prompted by recent shifts in the political climate of his own country, Munem Wasif is currently working on a film project titled Goom (forced disappearance, kidnapping in Bangla.) The work revolves around the increasing phenomenon of people gone missing, disappearances that often remain unexplained and unaccounted for. Less interested in excavating factual and political circumstances, the artist rather plans to focus on the human figures of the disappeared, tracing the emotional and psychological repercussions of their violent vanishment as an attempt to ultimately reinstate their visibility. Still at an initial stage of development, Goom is conceived as an experimental process which borrows from various techniques and methodologies to capture the affective landscape generated by loss. During the residency, Munem Wasif will try to hone his poetic visual language to convey memory and recollection of these violent losses.
Bangladesh
Munem Wasif
Bangladesh
Munem Wasif
2 April - 30 June 2019
Munem Wasif will try to hone his poetic visual language to convey memory and recollection of these violent losses.
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Artist-in-Residence
Munem Wasif
Munem Wasif
Artist · NTU CCA Singapore
COUNTRY OF PRACTICE: Bangladesh
Munem Wasif (b. 1983, Bangladesh) explores complex socio-political issues through photography and video. His artistic practice is marked by close engagement and intimate commitment, both physical and psychological, to his subjects of interest and it usually unfolds through long-term research processes. While interested in the archival and social value of documentary photography, his worksoften confound the boundaries between fact and fiction. An award-winning photographer, he hasparticipated in international exhibitions such as Sharjah Biennial 14, United Arab Emirates (2019);the 9th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2018-19); An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale (2016), amongst numerous others.
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