The series of larger paintings follows traces of bodies once whole, now contorted by memory, violence, and silence. Treasured and carried with them over the course of their migration, Francotte imagines these mats shifting into emblematic objects upon which both dispossession and hope are located.įor the men, spirituality becomes a place of solace, and of longing, while simultaneously being a means of re-leveraging a lost power within their everyday lives. The series of prayer mats laden with traces of their owners, explore the tangled interactions between, the Rohingya men and their relationship to the divine. The exhibition will continue at the Nalinikanta Vattashali Hall of the National Museum at Shahbagh in Dhaka from March 23 to 30. This series maps junctures of shared trauma communicated through wordless intimacies that the artist was invited into, while working with the Rohingya community of refugees in Bangladesh.Īrranged in three parts, the show speaks to the many ways in which latent trauma is carried precariously between the need to cope, to acknowledge and to persevere.įabienne Francotte’s work is on view together with the Rohingyas’ artworks at Edge Galleries, Edge Foundation, in city’s Gulshan 2 on Tuesday.
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