24 Feb সাহেব বিবির বৈঠকখানা / Shaheb Bibir Boithok-khana

A public art with performative installation by artist Syed Muhammad Zakir during the Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, BD.

“Story after a story”, the time we measure by adding another event after the incident, where the apparent end of the said story is not the end of the story, but its breadth is everlasting. We tend to forget that in our conscious sense, virtually everything remains, moments, smells, or sounds.

Our ears can’t hear it, the eyes can’t see it.
The calculation of time in cosmic events is incarnate – a great ongoing stagnation, as much as we can think of.
The realization of timelessness is the inspiration for this work. The site of inquiry is a palace. The evacuation of the place, the house, the brick, the vibrations of the air, the smell, the sudden appearance of a scene, the way the action is performed in the heart, is the response.

Engaging public space and public curiosity has been always a focus element in Zakirs work. When questions from deeper soul, universe and the cosmic journey is his subject matter of work, there “Shaheb Bibir Boithok-khana” refers to the salon of the king and queen. A salon with shiny elements, entertainment box, garden, pigeons and many things around, just like old days but in contemporary reality they are broken, dried, dirty and empty. The shiny past is having its course in the present as a dark dirty truth.

He completed the work with local collaboration with boys and kids around. He created a new friendship among them while forming a complementary performance called- “Jamai Elo”, a bengali word referring arrival of esteem guest/family member.

Syed Muhammad Zakir is a sculptor by training but an expressionist by practice from Bangladesh. Like to engage public and public spaces and often manipulates public curiosity to connect his work with general people. Prominent mediums of practice are Performance Art/Live Art, Land/landscape Art, Installation, Illusion drawing and wall art. He