Mix-media work by Ritwik Kar at the 6th episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program at Sunamganj, BD. The concept of home keeps recurring to mind as artist Ritwik Kar visited the Gourarang rajbari of Sunamganj in Bangladesh. The question arises that is home a......
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......
An illustrative collage & mural by Viraag Desai at the Uronto residential art exchange program at Dubolhati Palace in Noagaon, Bd. ‘The long march’ presents a timeline of the ecological history of the Dubolhati Area. After scouring the neighboring region of posters and other printed......
Site-responsive installation by artist Emran Sohel during the 7th episode of Urotno residential art exchnage program at Sunamganj, Bd. This work was a spontaneous reflection of artist Emran Sohel about the present engagement of certain area of the palace by the locals. The gathering of......
Satirical painting by Baloram Debnath during the 7th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program at Shukhair, Sunamganj, BD. Baloram’s works resemble the narration and interpretation of popular culture in our hypocritical Society; especially in a derision and humorous manner. This work took shape from......
Site-responsive creative product design by Tanmoy Nandi during the 7th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in Shukhair, sunamganj, BD. This work by ceramist artist Tanmoy Nandi was designed to solve basic electricity related issues in “Sunamgang” area. Sunamganj at that time was a......
Durational interactive performance by Anupam Saikia during 6th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program at Gourarang, Sunamganj, BD. History of a land and ownership always changes in time and we may get nostalgic and sometimes rational. In the 6th episode of URONTO, Anupam Saikia......
A performative public art by Julian A. Jimarez during the 7th episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Shukhair, Sunamganj, BD. As part of the seventh episode of the project artist and curator Julian A. Jimarez worked with several artists including Tarak Das, Tanmoy......
Community reflecting art intervention by Tanmoy Nandi during Uronto residential art exchange programme at Shukhair, Sunmaganj, BD. The work was inspired from interviews Tanmoy took during this residency programme. Before that programme that structure was carrying an image (mostly negative image as the ruling entity......
A public art intervention by Abhimanyu Dalui during the 7th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program at Sunamganj, BD. Cultural cleansing of historically rich regions is one of the most devastating actions taken in any contemporary civilized society where culture and history are intrinsic......
A small theater piece was written & directed by Kazi Toufikul Islam and his team from the theater group Prachyanat in Dhaka and was performed in collaboration with local cultural workers from Zahir Rayhan Film Society from Naogaon, BD. The theater piece was conceptualized through......
a series of painting and manipulated photography work by artist Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah at the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, BD. Through his artworks, Rupaneethan have been investigating the connection between the power hierarchies and the construction of......
A local style blue colored scrap-folding took shape by the Italian Artist Davide Tagliabue and the Local people during the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program. The intervention concerns the creation of a bamboo bridge structure, with an appearance similar to the temporary......
A zine book by Tanvir Alim during the residential art exchange program at Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, BD. Tanvir felt like yesterday, when he visited the palace for the first time. Each time there, someone inside him whispered that everything is temporary. Could there be......
A performative installation with photographic collaboration by Yuvraj Zahed A Chowdhry during the 5th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program taking place in P K Sen building in Chottogram, BD. Yuvraj A Chowdhury have been acquainted with the P K Sen building since his......
Small and large prints of stories from walls and plasters, produced by artist Birgitta Volz during the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exhcange Programm at Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. Birgitta usually prints the bark of old and special trees. According to her,......
A poetry series and a scroll painting by Fouzia Mahin Choudhury during the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Naogaon. The scroll consist of the historical stories of the old Dubolhati Palace. Everything ends, no matter how big, how mighty, how glorious......
A small series of illustration by artist Shikha Nambiar during the 9th Episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in Naogaon, BD. This series of illustrated letters aims to artistically describe the emotions experienced by the Dubolhati Rajbari, as it writes to its erstwhile dwellers.......
A public art by artist Rangajib Roy during the 9th Episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, BD. Artist explored the myth stories of the area and the natural composition around it. Roy is mostly interested in animal or creature......
A site-responsive installation work by Jewel Chakma from Bangladesh during the 9th episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. Skeleton is a base of an animals & human body. Without Skeleton and bones a figure is totaly incomplete. Without it, there’s......
An exciting spray painting done by Bonoful during the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art exchange Program. Bonoful is a local businessman from Dubolhati village in Naogaon. But he is also a skilled spray painter, he studied in Greece and lives in Italy occasionally. The......
The Photo series-01 among the two by Elodie Guignard during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program at Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. This series is about the women who have, over time, crossed this territory, this village and these ruins. Elodie......
A site-responsive performance by Aditi Bhattad during the 5th episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Chottogram, BD. Aditi is a skilled and passionate performance artist from India. When she participated in the programme she went through a layer of experience while exploring the......
A interactive installation by Taiara Farhana Hoque from Bangladesh during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Dubolhati Palace. This work involves the thinking process of the local also invites other living things around the palace, besides human, like ant, insect what......
06 post cards painted by Saria Saguaro from Bangladesh during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. Her impressions of the Rajbari and it’s surroundings are in these personal notes in a form of postcards to Bau, who is......
Public interactive work with terracotta pieces by Sarban Chowdhury at the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program. A depiction of how the Rajbari has been looted with the passage of time and currently left with ruins and scars. The loot takes place due......
Small scale mix-media work by Sarban Chowdhury during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program at Dubolhati, Noagaon, Rajshahi, BD. Set of nine drawings and print on paper, exploring the different sections of the Rajbari and giving them a fictional touch through time......
This piece of work is done by Rubi Karmakar from India during the 8th Episod eof Uronto Residential Art Exchnage Program in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD Being a women of Bengal Artist considers that, “Partition” is one of the main courses in the history of Bengal.......
A site-responsive performance by Nisha Rachel at the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Dubolhati Palace, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Bd The idea of a space could be political because it can be controlled. It can be controlled by someone within the space and......
These multidisciplinary expressions were created by Nabil Rahman during the 8th Episode of URONTO Residential Art Exchange Program in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. The Rajbari (The Dubolhati Palace) belongs to itself before belonging to anyone else. A living, breathing structure, eaten away by time. Nabil’s work......
Artist Manir Mrittik created a series of work in three different approaches, during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. below are the second and third expressions by the artist. Artist states, we can’t help but build and look......
Artist Manir Mrittik created a series of work in three different approaches, during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Naogaon, Rajshahi, BD. Below are the first series of expressions by the artist. The structures and objects built by mankind often outlast......
Terracotta, clay and found tree branches assembled by Sarban Chowdhury during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program at Dubolhati, Noagaon, Rajshahi, BD. A tree branch reaching out to a tree trunk that doesn’t belong to its own through stories that doesn’t fall......
The second Photo-series by Elodie Guignard In Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon. She heard many stories about the Raja(king) but haven’t heard anything of the Rani(queen). wondering who the queen was, who were the women who lived in this palace. She went into the village to......
A research based audio-work by Chandrayee Dey during the Residential Art Exchnage Program in Dubolhati Palace in Naogaon, BD. They work, they sing, they weave histories. They carry the past with them and pass it on to future generations. This work exhibits socio-cultural encounters of......
A photo poetry by Sounak Das during the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange program in Dubolhati palace of Naogaon District. The work also took a form of interactive installation with a complementing video projection in a corridor. The walls stand in silence in......
Durational (7 hours) site-responsive performance by Reetu Sattar at P K Sen Building during the 5th episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Chottogram, BD. In regards to the context of her work, Reetu mentions a well known saying in Bangla ‘Dhulai Milay Sokoli’.......
A site-responsive composition by Deepak Kumar Yadav at Dubolhati Palace during the residential art exchange program in Naogaon, Bd. Deepak works with almost any and every object that comes in contact of him. With a very unique capacity of understanding different material and assembling, he......
A Photographic series by Farhad Rahman during the 4th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Lakhotia Palace(Jaminder house) in Barisal, Bangladesh. The artworks placed on the architectural surrounding of the Lakhotia House were embellished with faded memories formulated with the combination of two......
Parboti Ar Shibh- Jhule Thaka Jibh After the partition of Bengal in 1947, the landlords of Calcutta migrated to live in this part that is now known as Bangladesh. They were Muslims. Similarly, the Hindu families had gone to Calcutta. In this house, once upon......
An instrumental public intervention with music and sound by artist-musician Fahmid Nibesh during the first episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Kushtia, BD. Every house has a rhythm within it. Which comes from the emotions and the attachments of the people who live......
Indian Artist Mansi Trivedi came all the way to Shatkhira in the Third Episode of URONTO at Kalinanda Chattopadhayay’s House. The palace is almost 400 years old and only few walls and roofless rooms are standing on their last legs in present time. In every......
This work is also done at Lakhutia Zamindar Bari in Barisal for the fourth episode of Uronto Residential Exchange Program. From its structure, it can be assumed that this house is over 300 years old. After the end of the Zamindari system, this house lost......
The artworks placed on the architectural surrounding of the Lakhotia House in the Forth Episode were embellished with faded memories formulated with the combination of two fundamental sources; one, which included various historical books and second, personal interview with Mukherjee. The written sources were concentrated......
This work is done by a participating photographer who heard from history that this house was a two storied building on two sides and the other two sides were a little more than a two storied building. There remain only the sitting room and a......
This room of Kalikanando Chattopadhyay’s house was a library of that time. His descendants of the current generation are Joyonto and Jyoti Chattopadhyay’s families. It is heard from the family members that there used to be a big library, a zoo, and a museum of......
Here the photographer has tried to capture some moments that can never be found again since the house is being broken. Such moments may include the light shades that enter the house through ventilators or the spider web, a rare kind of a shadow, water......
There used to be theater stage at the backyard of Kalikanando Chattopadhyay’s house. Theater show were held at this almost ruined place presently. The artists have used that platform to play a film ‘Jalsaghar’ by a projector to recall the memory of the past and......
Poems inspired by the working sites of Uronto in the second episode of residential art exchange program in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh by participating artist and writer Shahriar Shafique. POEM 01 – UNTITLED জানি, আমার জীর্ণ-স্যাঁতসেতে কোঠর,অস্থি চর্মসার শ্রীহীন সেঁকেলে মুখ,আঁধার অন্দর, আর বাইরে ক্ষয়ে যাওয়া পলেস্তারাতোমাকে......
Drawing room Tales- It is an artist’s attempt of a research-oriented work. Since the house is 400 years old, so many things are missing like few rooms do not have the rooftop. In one of its rooms that was used as a sitting room quite......
This work has been done in the house of Kalikanondo Chattopadhyay in Shatkhira for the third episode of Uronto Residential Exchange Program. The people (who came as migrants of may be living by generations ) of that area have a lot of experiences during riots......
It’s an attempt to imagine the existing furniture with the members of that house, how they would sit on a chair if they were present or how one would lie on a bed. Here the artists have found one distinct bed with significant patterns that......
The artists have decorated one room that they call a ‘Mini Museum of Memories’. The photographer has captured the existing elements of that house like almirah, bed, showcase, books, and boxes filled with the needle and sewing rope. Then the artists have used those photographs......
The place where the ‘Guptadhon’ signboard is hanged has a secret meaning. The soil of that place is tested. A land’s original value depends on the soil test whether it is worth to invest on or not. After a soil test of this land, there......
This work is regarded as ‘Dream House’ because the basic elements (bricks, money, and contacts) required for a dream house has been incorporated in a metaphorical representation. Some old bricks were there of that house. Also, some new bricks were kept beside. So, the artists......
A metaphoric installation by Uronto collective at the second episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in Nikli, Kishoreganj, BD. This work was part of the visual making process of the stories that artist were exploring at the 150 years old building known as Doyal......
The Second Episode of Uronto took place in Nikli Upozila at Kishoreganj, Bangladesh. Nikli is a Haor area which leaves it with high water level for six months and dry for six months. Water life is a essential part of Nikli and of the people......
The most obvious part of URONTO Residential Art exchange program is that we always involve local school children with us. From the very first episode till today in all the episodes children has been participating from different schools in the local area where we have......
When a old structure is demolished the Old bricks are sorted and the broken ones are of no use in future. But they are a significant part of the structure within which a family grew up and built their values and experiences. Artists identified the......
When a family living space becomes a war ground of demolishment of the building the developing companies then nothing seems normal. Everything feels aggressive looks wild and dangerous. In such situation an Artists saw a Dynamite out of a garbage bag on the site and......
Parks and play grounds are usually made for children to play and elders to walk out of the concrete houses and relax and enjoy time with friends and family. Park is generally a recreational place. The artists here tried to create a recreational place for......
This work is a satire work done in the Old commissioners building in Kushtia, BD. Here in the work the collective IDEA was to bring out the feelings of the house. The building was not more important to anyone, it is given to the developers......
In this installation, artist tried to represent the existence of the people who has lived here in the past. Nowadays, people around this house doesn’t know about those people, …..many don’t have any idea of that…but the house exists and people walk by in front......
When a house witnesses memories of partition, liberation war and then getting abandon and finally getting demolished, the house turns into a object. And through all these unexpected incidents the house witnesses various human like cold blooded snakes. Just like a cold blooded snake the......
A site-responsive installation by artist Sara Hossain and Nitol with cooperation of Kazi Shaharia during the second Episode of Uronto residential art exchange program in Kishoreganj, BD. URONTO launched the second episode at Nikli village of Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh. Other than the water life, the......