25 Sep Uronto provides a platform for artistic endeavours
-Sadma Malik, Dhaka Tribune.
The “Uronto” residential art exchange programme is a meeting place for creative personalities to work with a common theme and space. The multi-disciplinary visual artists, photographers, writers, musicians and performing artists travel throughout Bangladesh, where our rich heritage is situated.
The aim of the programme is to accommodate and sustain an organic environment for the artists to fall in rhythm with the natural sphere and project their insights amongst fellow artists, ultimately creating a reverberating atmosphere to inspire further projects. “Uronto” is an open collective, composed of individuals who wish to freely express their ideas through any medium.
Formed early this year, “Uronto” had their very first pilot project in Kushtia. With extensive research to survey old construction buildings in Bangladesh, the second workshop was held at a remote area of Kishorganj district “Nikli” where the aspiring artists resided for four days in the ancient buildings namely “Pal Bari,” “Doyal Kuthir,” and “Shaitdhar Chondronath Goshami Akhra” in August.
The artists worked with watercolour, photographs, sculptures, literatures and installations. The artworks conveyed the existence of the buildings and analysis of the artistic perspectives.
The multi-disciplinary artists had their own medium to perceive the buildings by working on the history, differences between past and present state, and other aesthetic views.
The organisation aims to represent the heritage by beautifying it from an artistic angle. They displayed their works at the “Nikli Pilot School” as an open studio for public viewing. The curator of the programme was a young artist named Sadya Mizan.
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