Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Rafiqul Shuvo

Artifacts, relating to upcoming events

Vidéo | hdv | noir et blanc | 13:1 | Bangladesh | 2014

‘Timelessness’ is the key of this video. The quality is not referring to ignore time rather; it’s capacity to ignore the influence of Time-a vital ruler of our life. Every era carries thousands of master pieces. With the passage of time, number of pieces of a particular era reduces for less occupancy to the people of the following era. It’s because the time changes reality. What can travel more must less influenced by time. From the first human to now, what is still constant? –Human body and Nature. The video is about relationship of body with nature. Figure used in the video represents only body; actions are natural. The actions of figures are in playing mode, the purpose is absent but the pleasure is inevitable. The purposeless is meaningless- The truth that we are here and will not be. The audio exactly carries the screaming of the truth of that we are passing. The video with creates insecurity as it demolishes meaning of security. A very melancholic feeling of death but hints how to face? And finally how it brings color to life? The ending commentary- ‘Body is for usage…..’-depicts how the video is “Optimistic about nothing”.

Rafiqul Shuvo was born in 1982 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was from a national cricket academy and initially started his career as a cricketer but later on he moved in the field of visual arts and studied sculpture (B.F.A and M.F.A) in Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Arts. Back in 2012 he curated a major show named “Only God Can Judge Me” an art event in a abandoned factory which ran parallel to the Dhaka Art Summit. In the following year 2013 he curated another collective multimedia and avant-garde show called Mourn. He is the founder of ‘OGCJMart’ a non-organizational collective along with his 12 artist friends. He works with his OGCJMart friends and he helps to develop and promote their works. He has, over the last ten years, participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. He is a conceptual artist works in various media his practice mainly focusing on paintings, sculptures, videos and photography. Recently he is making several videos and finished working on his first film.