Firoz Mahmud:聽Early Episodes II
This solo exhibition of mixed media works on paper by Bangladesh-born, New York-based artist Firoz Mahmud, engage his cultural and political heritage, touching on themes like war and conflict, legacies of the Bengal region, and dreams of immigrant families in new lands. The 鈥楧rawing Reverberation鈥� series of mixed media drawing on homemade papers delineate how foreign rulers from Persia came to greater Bengal for trading and preaching Islam. The socio-political issues during the Mughal era and the British East India company鈥檚 strategic colonial past are the core of this series of works on paper.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, Bengal and South Asia were colonized by the British East India Company. This works on paper series also extends Bengal legacy and history as well as the British East Indian colonial era and their trade and rule all over South Asia and its epicenter in Bengal. Most of these works depict the social past, evidence of things left behind, Islamism, history, myth, and beliefs of the past.
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This solo exhibition of mixed media works on paper by Bangladesh-born, New York-based artist Firoz Mahmud, engage his cultural and political heritage, touching on themes like war and conflict, legacies of the Bengal region, and dreams of immigrant families in new lands. The 鈥楧rawing Reverberation鈥� series of mixed media drawing on homemade papers delineate how foreign rulers from Persia came to greater Bengal for trading and preaching Islam. The socio-political issues during the Mughal era and the British East India company鈥檚 strategic colonial past are the core of this series of works on paper.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, Bengal and South Asia were colonized by the British East India Company. This works on paper series also extends Bengal legacy and history as well as the British East Indian colonial era and their trade and rule all over South Asia and its epicenter in Bengal. Most of these works depict the social past, evidence of things left behind, Islamism, history, myth, and beliefs of the past.
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