Territorial consciousness in S M Sultan

The Hindu epic Mahabharat refers to a river as bishwasya mataro or the mother of the universe. Rivers are the lifelines for people who consciously or unconsciously depend on their contributions as ‘interfaces between ecosystems and human well-being’. For the visionary painter S M Sultan (1923-1994), the River Chitra which flows by his village home,…

take four

From the pure visual pleasure of Fokhrul Islam’s cosmic landscape, Murshida Arzu Alpana’s canvas that records her sense of displacement born out of her exile, to Anwar Hossain’s photographic meditation on children and their environment to multimedia artist Fida Haq, an expatriate Bangladeshi living in Australia, the exhibition calendar in the first quarter of 2006…