Visual artist Ahmed Nazir in his digital prints exhibition titled Bioscope attempts to give expression to the contemporary global and local political crises.
All the 17 large size prints showcased at the Safiuddin Shilpalay in Dhanmondi in the capital bear witness to the ruins of Gaza, the land Israel has turn into debris and its people to crippled and maimed and of the deep social and political instability Bangladesh has plunged in in recent times.
The exhibition, inaugurated on Friday concluded on Wednesday.
Ahmed Nazir said that during the British colonial period, men called 鈥榖ioscopewala鈥� ferried the handmade device from village to village for children and even adults to watch running picture of exotic things and historical and mythical characters.
But now the stage was different where the world was ruled by powerful puppeteers of different kinds.
All over the world different nations fall victim to power imbalance, he said, adding that Gaza was a burning example where the struggle is not between the equals, but of morality against weapons.
In Ukraine also, conflict was born not of need, but of vanity and might.
He said that by naming the exhibition 鈥榖ioscope鈥� he meant that colonialism never left but only returned in disguise.
Traditional printmaking involves transferring images onto paper or other surfaces using a press and techniques such as etching, woodcut or lithography but on the other hand, digital printmaking聽 is a modern evolution of this process鈥攐ne that replaces the physical press with digital technology, said Nazir.
