A weeklong solo exhibition of driftwood artworks by Akhtar Ahmed Rasha titled ‘Drifting to the Root, Drifting to Love’ is underway at Safiuddin Shilpalay in Dhaka city’s Dhanmondi area.
Organised by Studio Vertical, noted cultural personality Asaduzzaman Noor inaugurated the exhibition on Thursday evening on the gallery premises. Art collector Abul Khair Litu addressed the inaugural ceremony, while Professor Nisar Hossain, Dean at Faculty of Fine Art, Dhaka University chaired the event.
“Drifting to the Root, Drifting to Love” is the first exhibition in the country by Akhtar Ahmed Rasha, an expatriate sculptor who employs natural materials like branches, roots, and trunks to craft found object art. The exhibition highlighting Bangladesh’s liberation war, women’s empowerment and nature began at Safiuddin Shilpalay in Dhaka city’s Dhanmondi area on Thursday.
He earlier joined a number of solo and group exhibitions in New Jersy, New York and Washington DC, the US.
“I’ve tried to give expressions to experience of life in Bangladesh and the process started with scavenging driftwood in beaches along the Atlantic coast. I am happy that I’ve focused on liberation war especially friends of Bangladesh abroad,” said the artist.
As many as 53 artworks have been put on display during the exhibition that would remain open to public between 11am and 7pm every day till September 13.
