Group exhibition titled PSA: Beyond the Gaze begin at AFD

Inauguration of group exhibition PSA Beyond the Gaze begins. AKK04531-min

The group exhibition titled PSA: Beyond the Gaze has begun at La Galerie Alliance Francaise de Dhaka.

The participating artists for this exhibition are: Ashima Raizada, Jatin Gulati, Ritika Sharma , Kunga Tashi Lepcha, Rinoshan Susiman, Aniruddha Sarkar , Arshadul Hoque Rocky.

Artist and critic Mostofa Zaman and critic Moinuddin Khaled attended the event as special guests.

The exhibition displaing pieces from the PSA: Beyond the Gaze 2023–2024 workshop, supported by Photo South Asia, an initiative of the MurthyNAYAK Foundation. The exhibition is also in partnership with Alliance Francaise de Dhaka in Bangladesh and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi in India.

About the Exhibition: BEYOND THE GAZE is an exhibition followed by a six-month workshop that welcomes young photographers and lens-based artists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The workshop was led by Soumya Sankar Bose (India), Ashfika Rahman (Bangladesh) and editing reviewd by Tanvi Mishra.

Objective: This workshop engages participants in discussion that explores photography as a social tool.  This workshop is dedicated to exploring different narratives from individual and collaborative vantage points. Participants are challenged to create a different narrative – one that not only records but also addresses a deep understanding of possibilities, where the entire community is included as collaborators.

Exhibition Note ‘BEYOND THE GAZE: What makes our lives intimate? What forms do our bonds take within the structures of this world? What interlinks us with one another? Within familiar spaces, what isolates us? What keeps us together, and how do we part ways? Artists in this exhibition ruminate over these provocations sieving through lived experiences, family histories, state narratives, tell-tales, myths and collective memories. The group show is a testament to our times in which legacies, identities, gazes, norms, systems and selves are conceived beyond set notions. Practitioners from parts of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka present stories of their dispositions through works that share common ground of the present.

The exhibition will be open to all till Monday, 2 September 2024.

Visiting Hours:  Everyday from 3 pm to 9 pm. – Press release