Maze
Installation, old clothes, 2019

Where do you run to find me…You will not find me by running like this…I am within you. Every minute, thousands of people are being displaced. Some are running towards a dream leaving everything behind, some are forced to leave their dreams behind. It is a maze created by the exploitative system that we have collectively created in this world. But let’s not talk about it. Let’s focus on something pleasant.

Bio
Born in 1974 in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh, Kamruzzaman Shadhin graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University with his BFA in 1996, and MFA in 1999. His participatory practice incorporates installation, performance, video, sculpture and public art interventions. His work maintains a satirical edge, dealing directly with the politics of environmental degradation and destruction, and its effects on communities across Bangladesh. Migration, social justice and local history are recurring themes in his works. In the last few years, the traditional crafts of the region and their underlying relationship with the history of this land has become a major part of his artistic research and journey.
In 2001, he founded Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, an organisation focused on social practice and community art in Bangladesh which realised community based projects and residencies in his village in Thakurgaon. His first solo exhibition ‘Rooted in Soil’, was held at the Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016. His recent exhibitions include: ‘Fabricated Fractures’, Concrete, Alserker Avenue, Dubai 2019; ‘Fabric of Felicity’, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 2018; Dhaka Art Summit 2018; ‘Transformation/Reformation’, Leipzig, Germany, 2017; ‘Intl. Solo Festival’, BACC, Thailand 2016. He was awarded the Grand Prize at the 17th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka (2016)