Looking at – Sarker Protick

In the organizer's words:

With Marlène Harles . Art and media anthropologist /
Katharina Täschner . Junior Curator, C/O Berlin Foundation

Language German

In this guided tour, Marlène Harles, an expert on contemporary art production in Bangladesh, and exhibition curator Katharina Täschner will examine the work of Bangladeshi photographer Sarker Protick from a media anthropological and photo-historical perspective.

In his exhibition অঙ্গার . Awngar the arc between different temporalities. Looking at the historical territory of Bengal, which today extends across India and Bangladesh, he reveals the connection between the colonial history of the Indian subcontinent and the exploitation of the people and ecosystems living there that continues to this day.

Marlène Harles offers exciting insights into the artistic practice and the environment in which Protick works and which he himself helps to shape. These include the Patshala South Asian Media Institute, where Protick studied and now works as Director of International Program, as well as Chobi Mela, Asia's oldest photography festival, which he co-curates. Through Protick's work, the tour shows how a new generation of internationally active artists is reflecting on the history of Bangladesh and making its relevance visible beyond Asia's borders.

Marlène Harles is an art and media anthropologist. She completed her doctorate at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University on artist collectives in Nepal and Bangladesh. She deals with topics of visuality, intersectionality and the collective. She has been at the Kunsthalle Mainz since 2022

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